The Everyday Language of White Racism
Published on 15. September 2011
240 pages
978-1-4443-5669-4 (ISBN)
Description
In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hillprovides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal theunderlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate inAmerican culture.
* provides a detailed background on the theory of race andracism
* reveals how racializing discourse--talk and text thatproduces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people tothem--facilitates a victim-blaming logic
* integrates a broad and interdisciplinary range of literaturefrom sociology, social psychology, justice studies, critical legalstudies, philosophy, literature, and other disciplines that havestudied racism, as well as material from anthropology andsociolinguistics
* Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and CultureSeries
Reviews / Votes
"Recommended [to] Most levels/libraries." (CHOICE, November2009) "Resonating far beyond its focus on the US, this is a lucid,compelling, committed and highly original account of thefundamental aspects of routine language that help racism thriveamidst its everyday denial." -Professor Ben Rampton, King's College London "The Everyday Language of White Racism is an extremelyimportant book. Jane Hill raises readers' awareness for thepotential danger which confronts all of us; i.e. that 'race' andracially based practices which are frequently expressed in indirectand covert ways would become part of common sense and thusessentialized. This is also a very timely book because it points usto the many instances in everyday life where discrimination stilloccurs and proposes ways how to challenge social exclusion." -Ruth Wodak, Distinguished Professor of DiscourseStudies, Lancaster University "Hill's academic credentials give her the authority to writethis disquieting book. The care she uses to make her case willcompel even skeptics to reconsider the way they speak about otherpeople." -Otto Santa Ana, University of California, LosAngeles "For the many Americans who believe that racism is on thedecline in the contemporary United States, The Everyday Language ofWhite Racism will be both eye-opening and thought-provoking.Challenging the commonsense belief that racism is rooted inindividual, intentional feelings of hatred or prejudice, Jane Hillshows that racism is produced through language in which raciststereotypes circulate, whether deliberately, unwittingly, orsomewhere in between. Hill's magisterial command of a widerange of scholarship provides rich theoretical and politicalcontext for her acute analyses of racist language in the media,public discourse, and private talk. The result is an engaging andimportant discussion of the enduring yet often invisible presenceof racism in American daily life." -Mary Bucholtz, Department of Linguistics, Universityof California, Santa BarbaraMore details
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The Everyday Language of White Racism
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Person
Jane H. Hill is Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as President of the American Anthropological Association, and was awarded the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology in 2005.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgments vi
1 The Persistence of White Racism 1
2 Language in White Racism: An Overview 31
3 The Social Life of Slurs 49
4 Gaffes: Racist Talk without Racists 88
5 Covert Racist Discourse: Metaphors, Mocking, and theRacialization of Historically Spanish-Speaking Populations in theUnited States 119
6 Linguistic Appropriation: The History of White Racism isEmbedded in American English 158
7 Everyday Language, White Racist Culture, Respect, and Civility175
Notes 183
References 197
Index 217
