Silent Racism

How Well-Meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide

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ID19918592
AuthorsBarbara Trepagnier (corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages216
Publication date2017-07-05
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSilent racism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315284453
OpenAlexW4239480352
ISBN9781315284453
Open LibraryOL53988274M
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Vivid and engaging, Silent Racism persuasively demonstrates that silent racism—racism by people who classify themselves as “not racist”—is instrumental in the production of institutional racism. Trepagnier argues that heightened race awareness is more important in changing racial inequality than judging whether individuals are racist. The collective voices and confessions of “nonracist” white women heard in this book help reveal that all individuals harbor some racist thoughts and feelings. Trepagnier uses vivid focus group interviews to argue that the oppositional categories of racist/not racist are outdated. The oppositional categories should be replaced in contemporary thought with a continuum model that more accurately portrays today’s racial reality in the United States. A shift to a continuum model can raise the race awareness of well-meaning white people and improve race relations. Offering a fresh approach, Silent Racism is an essential resource for teaching and thinking about racism in the twenty-first century

Feeling · Psychometrics of racism · Racial formation theory · Racism · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Attitudes · biography · Interviews · Race awareness · race relations · united states · White people · White Women · Whites · Women

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