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Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist - Leland Harper, Jennifer Kling

Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist

Language and the Dynamic Disaster of American Racism
Buch | Hardcover
134 Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4042-0 (ISBN)
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This book unearths and outlines the semantic foundations of white fragility and their consequences for racial justice in the United States. It argues that by expanding our racial vocabulary in certain ways, we can make progress toward justice equally enjoyed by all.
“Hey, that was kind of racist.”

“I'm not a racist! I have Black friends.”

This exchange highlights a problem with how people in the United States tend to talk about racially tricky situations. As Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist: Language and the Dynamic Disaster of American Racism explores, such situations are ordinarily categorized as either racist or not racist (or, in other cases, as antiracist). The problem is, there are often situations that are racially not good, but that we do not want to categorize as racist, either. However, since we don’t have the language to describe this in-between, we are forced to fall back on the racist/not racist/antiracist trinary, which tends to shut down productive discussion. This is especially true for white people, who tend to take claims of racism—be they interpersonal or institutional—as a personal attack. This is problematic, not only because it means that white people never learn about their own racially troubling behaviors, but also because such fragility keeps them from being able to engage in productive discussions about systemic racial oppression. Leland Harper and Jennifer Kling demonstrate how expanding our racial vocabulary is crucial for the attainment of justice equally enjoyed by all.

Leland Harper is assistant professor of philosophy at Siena Heights University. Jennifer Kling is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Land Acknowledgment

Chapter 1: The Dynamic Disaster of Racism

Chapter 2: The Semantic Foundations of White Fragility and the Consequences for Justice

Chapter 3: COVID-19 in Black America

Chapter 4: Shifting Toward Democracy and Justice

Chapter 5: Furthering the Claim

Chapter 6: Conversations

Chapter 7: The Expansion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Philosophy of Race
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 239 mm
Gewicht 390 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-7936-4042-4 / 1793640424
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-4042-0 / 9781793640420
Zustand Neuware
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