Fractured : race relations in "post-racial" American life / Helen Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Helen.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-racialism--United States.

Post-racialism.

Minorities.

Social conditions.

African Americans--Social conditions.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.

African Americans.

Minorities--United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Physical Description:

181 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Race relations in "post-racial" American life

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2015]

Summary:

"What do you think is meant by the term 'post-racial' and how far do you think we've come, as a country, toward achieving it?" Helen Fox, a white teacher and scholar, asked variations of this question to 87 high school and college students, educators, administrators, community organizers, international visitors, and tribal leaders across the country. Their stories reveal how far we are from a "post-racial" ideal even in the most liberal of communities. Despite her long experience as an anti-racist educator, Fox was surprised to learn how deeply the lives of people of color continue to be shaped by race, and how hard they have to work to ignore or overcome assumptions, remarks, exclusion, and at times, blatant hostility from whites. The kinds of racism they experience depend on their gender, their religion, their geographical location, their skin tone, their forms of speech and expression, their socioeconomic class, their aspirations, their determination to be outspoken or stoic, the kinds and amount of contact they choose to have (or can't escape having) with whites, and of course, their ascribed race. Despite our nation's "post-racial" climate, racialized assumptions, beliefs, and denials affect everything, from the reach of the national media down to the smallest community: the street where one lives, the friends one attempts to make, the social club, the study group, the classroom. As an art educator remarked, "The 'post-racial' reminds me of the post-modern - the fracturing of things. It's not like our society has finally come together - unless we've come together as a fractured society and we're feeling the prickliness of the broken shards." Book jacket.

Contents:

"This town is so liberal, there's no such thing as race."

Are we post-racial yet?

"Santa just is white, kids."

Racism by any other name

Dumping on the poor

Racism as a complex system

The way forward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

143312369X

9781433123702

1433123703

9781433123696

OCLC:

908660813

Publisher Number:

99963814790