Everyday Forms of Whiteness

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.

Autorentext
Melanie E. L. Bush is associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Adelphi University. She has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and presented at a range of national conferences particularly in the fields of sociology and anthropology, and in 2003 she was a prize winner of the Praxis Award, given by the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists for outstanding achievement in translating knowledge into action in addressing contemporary social problems.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

List of Abbreviations
Foreword by Joe R. Feagin
Preface
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: The Here and Now
Chapter 2: White, Black, and Places "In Between"
Chapter 3: American Identity, Democracy, the Flag, and the Foreign-Born Experience
Chapter 4: Making Sense, Nonsense, and No Sense of Race and Rules
Chapter 5: Poverty, Wealth, Discrimination, and Privilege
Chapter 6: Cracks in the Wall of Whiteness: Desperately Seeking Agency and Optimism
Epilogue: How Things Change as They Remain the Same
Afterword
Bibliography
Notes
Index
About the Author