Promise of Whiteness (eBook)

Its Past and Its Future

Martha R. Bireda (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
90 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-6357-4 (ISBN)

Infos

During this difficult time in our nation's history, with the focus on ';racial reckoning', it is crucial that Americans understand when and how our ';race-based hierarchy' came to be invented. The Promise of Whiteness: Its Past and Its Future explores the psycho-social impact of the promise of ';whiteness' upon the past and present-day race relations in the United States. The ';promise of whiteness'which includes the ';place', ';privilege' or advantages of whiteness, the ';power' bestowed by whiteness, and the ';protection' from punishment for violence toward blacksis examined. Crucial to the book's concept is a discussion of the psychological needs met by whiteness and the needs, fears, anxieties, and dissonance produced as well. Finally, the book questions if the ';promise of whiteness' is still viable in America as it has evolved into a multiracial society, and recommends that Americans, as a nation, commit to an equal society for all members regardless of race or social class. This book expands on several chapters previously published in A Time for Change: How White Supremacy Ideology Harms All Americans.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Affirmative Action • anti-racism • Black Wall Street • Civil Rights Act • Civil Rights Movement • Class hierarchy • class issues • cognitive dissonance • consciousness of whiteness • critical race theory • Cultural diversity • Deaths of Despair • Fair Housing Act • Intersectionality • lynching • microaggressions • privilege • race-based hierarchy • race issues • Race relations • Racial Discrimination • racial healing • racial hierarchy • racially induced dissonance • racially induced emotions • racial privlege • racial reckoning • racial terroism • racial violence • Racism • social constructs • social constructs of race • Systemic Racism • the 15th Amendment • The American Dream • Tulsa Race Riots • Voting Rights Act • white backlash • white supremacy • white supremacy ideology
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-6357-8 / 1475863578
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-6357-4 / 9781475863574