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Title:
Everyday forms of whiteness : understanding race in a "post-racial" world / Melanie E.L. Bush.
Author:
Bush, Melanie E. L., 1955-

Bush, Melanie E. L., 1955- Breaking the code of good intentions.
Publication Information:
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2011.
Call Number:
E184 .A1 B917 2011
Abstract:
From the publisher. The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of Whiteness looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and reveals that even though we talk as though we live in a 'post-racial' world after the election of Barack Obama, racism is still very much a factor in everyday life. The second edition incorporates new data and interviews to show how the everyday thinking of ordinary people contributes to the perpetuation of systemic racialized inequality. The book introduces key terms for the study for race and ethnicity, reveals the mechanisms that support the racial hierarchy in U.S. society, then outlines ways we can challenge long-standing patterns of racial inequality.
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780742599970

9780742599987
Series:
Perspectives on a multiracial America

Perspectives on a multiracial America series.
Physical Description:
xx, 309 pages ; 23 cm.
General Note:
Previously published as: Breaking the code of good intentions, ©2004.
Contents:
The here and now -- White, black, and places "in between" -- "American" identity, democracy, the flag, and the foreign-born experience -- Making sense, nonsense and no sense of race and rules -- Poverty, wealth, discrimination, and privilege -- Crack in the wall of whiteness: desperately seeking agency and optimism.
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