Noel A. Cazenave

Conceptualizing Racism (eBook, ePUB)

Breaking the Chains of Racially Accommodative Language

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Conceptualizing Racism is a provocative book that confronts the language we use to discuss and understand racism. Author Noel A. Cazenave argues that American social science has, since its inception, practiced linguistic racial accommodation that blurs our understanding of systemic racism and makes it difficult to effect meaningful change. Conceptualizing Racism highlights how words matter in racism studies. The author traces the history of linguistic racial accommodation through the development of sociology as a discipline and illustrates how it is at play today, not only within the discipline but in public life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442252363
• Artikelnr.: 44196709

Autorenporträt

Noel A. Cazenave is professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut, where he also teaches in the Urban and Community Studies program. In addition to many journal articles, book chapters, and other publications, he coauthored Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card against America's Poor, which won five book awards, and has more recently published Impossible Democracy: The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs and The Urban Racial State: Managing Race Relations in American Cities.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Sociology as Autobiography Introduction: Racial Accommodation and
the Misconceptualization of Racism 1.Understanding Linguistic Racial
Accommodation and Confrontation 2.Linguistic Racial Accommodation from
Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement 3.Linguistic Racial Accommodation and
Confrontation from the Civil Rights Movement to The Declining Significance
of Race 4.Theoretical Fragmentation: The White Backlash and Its Legacy of
Failure 5.Defining Racism: Beyond Mini-Racism and the "Race" as Agency
Concept 6.Confronting Racially Accommodative Language by Conceptualizing
Racism as a System of Oppression Conclusion: Lessons Learned and Challenges
Remaining: Toward a More Honest Conceptualization of Racism Epilogue:
Unfinished Business in Confronting Racially Accommodative Language