
Racing to Justice
Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
john a. powell(Author)
Indiana University Press
2nd Edition
Published on 19. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-253-06974-0 (ISBN)
Description
In Racing to Justice, renowned social justice advocate john a. powell persuasively argues that we have yet to achieve a truly post-racial society and that there is much work to be done to redeem the American promise of inclusive democracy.
Gathered from a decade of writing about social justice and spirituality, these meditations on race, identity, and social policy provide an outline for laying claim to our shared humanity and a way toward healing ourselves and securing our future. With an updated foreword and a new chapter on polarization, this new edition continues to challenge us to replace the attitudes and institutions that promote and perpetuate social suffering with those that foster relationships and a way of being that transcends disconnection and separation.
Racing to Justice is a thought-provoking book that offers readers a look into the issues that continue to plague our society. It is reminder that we have yet to address and reckon with the challenges we face in providing equal opportunities for all people in this country and the world.
Gathered from a decade of writing about social justice and spirituality, these meditations on race, identity, and social policy provide an outline for laying claim to our shared humanity and a way toward healing ourselves and securing our future. With an updated foreword and a new chapter on polarization, this new edition continues to challenge us to replace the attitudes and institutions that promote and perpetuate social suffering with those that foster relationships and a way of being that transcends disconnection and separation.
Racing to Justice is a thought-provoking book that offers readers a look into the issues that continue to plague our society. It is reminder that we have yet to address and reckon with the challenges we face in providing equal opportunities for all people in this country and the world.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-06974-0 (9780253069740)
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Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
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john a. powell (who spells his name in lowercase in the belief that we should be "part of the universe, not over it, as capitals signify") is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racism, housing, poverty, and democracy. He is the Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, and he holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion and is a Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. He has also taught at numerous law schools including Harvard and Columbia University.
Content
Foreword by Elsadig Elsheikh
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Race and Racialization
1. Targeted Universalism
2. The Color-Blind Multiracial Dilemma: Racial Categories Reconsidered
3. The Racing of American Society: Race Functioning as a Verb before Signifying as a Noun
Part Two: White Privilege
4. Interrogating Privilege, Transforming Whiteness
5. White Innocence and the Courts: Jurisprudential Devices that Obscure Privilege
Part Three: The Racialized Self
6. Dreaming of a Self beyond Whiteness and Isolation
7. The Multiple Self: Implications for Law and Social Justice
Part Four: Engagement
8. Lessons from Suffering: How Social Justice Informs Spirituality
9. Polarization
Afterword
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Race and Racialization
1. Targeted Universalism
2. The Color-Blind Multiracial Dilemma: Racial Categories Reconsidered
3. The Racing of American Society: Race Functioning as a Verb before Signifying as a Noun
Part Two: White Privilege
4. Interrogating Privilege, Transforming Whiteness
5. White Innocence and the Courts: Jurisprudential Devices that Obscure Privilege
Part Three: The Racialized Self
6. Dreaming of a Self beyond Whiteness and Isolation
7. The Multiple Self: Implications for Law and Social Justice
Part Four: Engagement
8. Lessons from Suffering: How Social Justice Informs Spirituality
9. Polarization
Afterword
Notes
References
Index