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Getting Smart about Race: An American Conversation

Autor Margaret L. Andersen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 feb 2020
Racial tension in America has become a recurring topic of conversation in politics, the media, and everyday life. There are numerous explanations as to why this has become a predominant subject in today's news and who is to blame. As Americans prepare once again to cast their Presidential ballots, it's more important than ever to have a smart and thoughtful conversation about race. In Getting Smart About Race, expert Margaret Andersen discusses why racial healing should be an integral element of our everyday discussions surrounding race and how to move the conversation in a positive direction. Getting Smart About Race is a clear, accessible introduction to understanding racial inequality and how we can and need to make a difference.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781538129494
ISBN-10: 1538129493
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 2 graphs
Dimensiuni: 149 x 221 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Race: A Thoroughly Social Idea

Chapter 2: Feeling Race in Everyday Life

Chapter 3: Who, Me? I'm Not a Racist, But . . .

Chapter 4: What Did You Say? Contesting
Commonsense Racism

Chapter 5: But That Was Then-I Didn't Have
Anything to Do with It

Chapter 6: Getting Smart about Race, Then Doing
Something about It

Appendix A: Finding Common Ground:
Questions for Conversation

Appendix B: Further Resources

Notes

Index

About the Author

Recenzii

In Getting Smart about Race, Margaret Andersen provides a lucid and sensitive meditation on racial inequality, analyzing both the origins of American racism as well our current social and political conflicts. Based on rigorous sociological research, this volume is written in an accessible narrative style and will provoke meaningful conversations about our nation's future.
Like the cartoon fish who wonders what water is, white Americans are often oblivious to racism. This book is a necessary and timely corrective. Margaret Andersen has written an important examination of the "water" that continues to stubbornly define and divide us. I strongly recommend it.
Margaret Andersen's clear, empathetic, evenhanded, and engaged writing can change the awareness of white readers who decide to face "all of this talk about race." Andersen makes their effort both worthwhile and rewarding. She lets readers know they matter and that what they think and do matters to the racial climate of this country--even the world. She shows us it is not too late to get smarter and outgrow what she calls the "commonsense racism" of our childhood environments and educations. The humane tone of this book is a gift to all who are making efforts toward social justice in the United States.
Getting Smart about Race promotes social understanding, drawing our attention to the peculiarly structural nature of systemic racism, while revealing some of its unlikely victims: white people. Gracefully written, accessible, and deeply illuminating - a reflexive work of singular importance that should be read and digested by everyone.
Dr. Andersen's approach to conversations around racism is accessible to people of all backgrounds, and provides a useful point of entry to discussions of race in a modern context. This book makes an important contribution to modern day efforts to dismantling racism across the country.
In a clear, elegant, and thorough way, Margaret Andersen makes us all 'smart about race'. She tells us what race, racism, and prejudice are, their effects in society, and what we can do to change the racial order of things. Getting Smart about Race will help advance our national dialogue about the continuing significance of race.
Margaret Andersen's Getting Smart about Race is a roadmap for the substantive and constructive conversation about race we say we need to have. With the first sentence and one thoughtful question, she unsettles the racial landscape...But she doesn't just discuss the problem, she offers a way for us to discover the shared humanity which must be the foundation for racial healing in the United States of America.