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More beautiful and more terrible : the embrace and transcendence of racial inequality in the United States / Imani Perry.
Author
Perry, Imani, 1972-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : New York University Press, 2011.
Description
xv, 248 pages ; 23 cm
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Available Online
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Firestone Library - Faculty Publications
E184.A1 P42 2010
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Racism
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United States
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United States
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Race relations
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Summary note
For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial inequality that plays out in law, policy, and in our local communities. One of two explanations is often given for this persistent phenomenon: On the one hand, we might be hypocritical, saying one thing, and doing or believing another; on the other, it might have little to do with us individually but rather be inherent to the structure of American society. This work compels us to think beyond this insufficient dichotomy in order to see how racial inequality is perpetuated. The author asserts that the U.S. is in a new and distinct phase of racism that is "post-intentional" : neither based on the intentional discrimination of the past, nor drawing upon biological concepts of race. Drawing upon the insights and tools of critical race theory, social policy, law, sociology and cultural studies, she demonstrates how post-intentional racism works and maintains that it cannot be addressed solely through the kinds of structural solutions of the Left or the values arguments of the Right. Rather, the author identifies a place in the middle, a space of "righteous hope", and articulates a notion of ethics and human agency that will allow us to expand and amplify that hope. To paraphrase James Baldwin, when talking about race, it is both more terrible than most think, but also more beautiful than most can imagine, with limitless and open-ended possibility. The author leads readers down the path of imagining the possible and points to the way forward.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"It wasn't me!" : post intent and correlational racism
It's all of us : the practice of inequality
Telling tales out of school : the work of racial narratives
The house that Jack built : inequality via category
"I always feel like somebody's watchin' me" : the racing of privacy, voyeurism and surveillance
Exceptionally yours : racial escape hatches in the contemporary United States
Black taxes and white wages : the social economy of race
Conclusion : remediation, or, from proof to possibility.
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ISBN
9780814767368 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
0814767362 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
9780814767375 ((pb ; : alk. paper))
0814767370 ((pb ; : alk. paper))
9780814768181 ((e-book))
0814768180 ((e-book))
LCCN
2010039826
OCLC
630468240
Other standard number
99942962469
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