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Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice de Mark R. Warren

Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics

Autor Mark R. Warren
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 sep 2010

În lucrarea Fire in the Heart, Mark R. Warren investighează mecanismele prin care cetățenii americani albi devin activiști dedicați justiției rasiale. Această ediție, publicată sub egida Oxford University Press, se distinge prin rigoarea academică aplicată unui eșantion de 50 de lideri din sectoarele educației și reformei judiciare, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care identitatea antirasistă este interiorizată nu doar ca datorie etică, ci ca un angajament personal profund.

Apreciem modul în care Warren evită explicațiile simpliste bazate pe altruism. Descoperim aici că motivația sustenabilă pentru activism nu provine din date statistice sau raționamente logice reci, ci din relații umane autentice și valori morale activate prin contactul direct cu realitățile comunităților de culoare. Autorul poziționează această cercetare în continuarea preocupărilor sale pentru democratizarea spațiului public și succesul educațional, teme explorate anterior în A Match on Dry Grass și Dry Bones Rattling. Dacă acele lucrări se concentrau pe puterea organizării comunitare, volumul de față analizează transformarea individuală a celor care dețin, structural, privilegii.

Fire in the Heart reprezintă o alternativă necesară la Whites Confront Racism de Eileen O'Brien pentru cursurile de studii etnice sau sociologie politică. În timp ce O'Brien oferă o tipologie a căilor spre activism, Warren aduce avantajul unei analize aprofundate asupra tensiunilor și dilemelor practice din cadrul organizațiilor multirasiale. Stilul este analitic, dar ancorat în mărturii vii, oferind o structură narativă care transformă interviurile sociologice într-o examinare a viitorului democrației americane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199751259
ISBN-10: 0199751250
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 1 black and white illustration
Dimensiuni: 165 x 235 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics

Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la sociologie sau științe politice care doresc să înțeleagă psihologia din spatele mișcărilor sociale contemporane. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă documentată asupra modului în care solidaritatea trans-rasială poate fi construită sustenabil, oferind modele concrete de acțiune care depășesc simplul sentiment de vinovăție sau conformismul social.

Despre autor

Mark R. Warren este profesor asociat la School of Education din cadrul Universității Harvard, fiind un specialist recunoscut în sociologie urbană și politici educaționale. Activitatea sa academică s-a concentrat constant pe intersecția dintre democrația participativă, organizarea comunitară și echitatea rasială în Statele Unite. Prin lucrări precum Willful Defiance, Warren a documentat eforturile părinților și elevilor din comunitățile marginalizate de a reforma sistemul școlar. În Fire in the Heart, el își folosește vasta experiență de cercetare pe teren pentru a analiza rolul aliaților albi în aceste mișcări de transformare socială.

Descriere

Fire in the Heart uncovers the dynamic processes through which some white Americans become activists for racial justice. The book reports powerful accounts of the development of racial awareness drawn from in-depth interviews with fifty white activists in the fields of community organizing, education, and criminal justice reform. Drawing extensively on the rich interview material, Mark Warren shows how white Americans can develop a commitment to racial justice, not just because it is the right thing to do, but because they embrace the cause as their own. Contrary to much contemporary thinking on racial issues focused on altruism or interests, Warren finds that cognitive and rational processes alone do little to move whites to action. Rather, the motivation to take and sustain action for racial justice is profoundly moral and relational. Warren shows how white activists come to find common cause with people of color when their core values are engaged, as they build relationships with people of color that lead to caring, and when they develop a vision of a racially just future that they understand to benefit everyone--themselves, other whites, and people of color. Warren also considers the complex dynamics and dilemmas white people face in working in multiracial organizations committed to systemic change in America's racial order, and provides a deeper understanding and appreciation of the role that white people can play in efforts to promote racial justice.The first study of its kind, Fire in the Heart brings to light the perspectives of white people who are working day-to-day to build not a post-racial America but the foundations for a truly multiracial America rooted in a caring, human community with equity and justice at its core.

Recenzii

Fire in the Heart is a one-of-a-kind look at the motivations, tribulations, and contributions of white allies in the racial justice struggle. It brings to life the human dimension of social activism, and the voices of the activists included herein by Mark Warren are a true inspiration!
In his timely, well-researched, and profoundly creative book, Mark Warren enables us to appreciate the power of moral understanding as a major source of the motivation to act, especially in ways that challenge the status quo. By focusing on racial 'border crossers,' people engaged in what seems to be inherently paradoxical action, he takes us well beyond the arid models of human motivation all too common in social science. By reconnecting 'head, hands, and heart' he helps us understand the courage to make change. And by combining the richness of narrative with systematic analysis, he makes a genuinely unique contribution to our understanding of why we do what we do. Warren's book, like his first one, is of unusual value to scholars, practitioners, and the interested public.
Based on rich and detailed data from interviews with 50 progressive white activists across the country, Mark Warren paints a vivid portrait of how some whites develop an awareness of racial injustice and a commitment to combat it. In the process, he persuasively demonstrates what is necessary for whites to find common ground with people of color. Anyone who cares about the future of race relations in America should read this book.
We need all Americans working together to ensure all people - regardless of race - have access to economic and social opportunity. Mark Warren's insightful book reminds us that a deep and lasting national commitment to justice is hard, necessary work. The color line must stop serving as a barrier to national progress.
In a society where racial inequality and injustice have been passively accepted as part of the American social fabric, it is critical to understand what it will take for a greater number of individuals to become committed to its eradication. This book provides that insight and it does so with clarity and passion. Advancing the cause of racial justice in education and beyond requires just this kind of activist scholarship.
Maybe the truth should hurt, but it's difficult to find one's bearings after getting slammed with the overwhelming reality of white racism-which makes Mark R. Warren's new book Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice^ ... a heartening read.
Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice by Mark R. Warren is an academic, thoughtful study of fifty white activists ... while some called the time after President Obama's election post-racial, Fire in the Heart is realistic in understanding that racial injustice continues, but Warren's book searches for a way to combat it.

Notă biografică

Mark R. Warren is Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University. He is a sociologist and has published widely on community organizing and on efforts to build alliances across race and class to revitalize urban communities, reform public education and expand democracy.