The emotional politics of racism : how feelings trump facts in an era of colorblindness / Paula Ioanide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ioanide, Paula, author.

Series:

Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.

Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--United States--Psychological aspects.

Racism.

Social psychology--United States.

Social psychology.

United States--Social policy.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against Black, Latino, Arab and Muslim people in the United States, even as a majority of citizens claim to support "colorblindness" and racial equality. With this book, Paula Ioanide examines how emotion has prominently figured into these contemporary expressions of racial discrimination and violence. How U.S. publics dominantly feel about crime, terrorism, welfare, and immigration often seems to trump whatever facts and evidence say about these politicized matters. Though four case studies—the police brutality case of Abner Louima; the exposure of torture at Abu Ghraib; the demolition of New Orleans public housing units following Hurricane Katrina; and a proposed municipal ordinance to deny housing to undocumented immigrants in Escondido, CA—Ioanide shows how racial fears are perpetuated, and how these widespread fears have played a central role in justifying the expansion of our military and prison system and the ongoing divestment from social welfare. But Ioanide also argues that within each of these cases there is opportunity for new mobilizations, for ethical witnessing: we must also popularize desires for justice and increase people's receptivity to the testimonies of the oppressed by reorganizing embodied and unconscious structures of feeling.

Contents:

Introduction : facts and evidence don't work here

Criminals and terrorists : the emotional economies of military-carceral expansion

New York, NY : the raging emotions of white police brutality

Abu Ghraib, Iraq : the evasive emotions of U.S. exceptionalism

Welfare dependents and illegal aliens : the emotional economies of social wage retrenchment

New Orleans, LA : the demolishing emotions of neoliberal removal

Escondido, CA : the exclusionary emotions of nativist movements

Epilogue : the other side of social death.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804795487

0804795487

OCLC:

1198929987