Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory - Brossura

Essed, Philomena

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ISBN 10: 0803942567 ISBN 13: 9780803942561

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1991

Riassunto

While there are numerous studies of racism and racial inequality at the macro-level of analysis, there has been little work done on the experience of everyday racism for black people. Philomena Essed′s brilliant work fills this gap. This landmark volume compares contemporary racism in the United States and the Netherlands through in-depth interview data from more than 2,000 experiences of black women. As an interdisciplinary analysis of gendered social constructions of racism, it breaks new ground. Essed problematizes and reinterprets many of the meanings and everyday practices that the majority of society has come to take for granted. She addresses crucial but largely neglected dimensions of racism: How is racism experienced in everyday situations? How do black women recognize covert expressions of racism? What knowledge of racism do black women have, and how is this knowledge acquired? How do they challenge racism in everyday life? To answer these questions, over two thousand experiences of black women are analyzed within a theoretical framework that integrates the disciplines of macro- and micro-sociology, social psychology, discourse analysis, race relations theory, and women′s studies. Samples include only black women with higher education. Many of their experiences of racism involve the "elite" among the dominant group. The book seriously challenges both the notion of Dutch tolerance and the idea that U.S. racism is a problem of the past. With this concept in mind, Understanding Everyday Racism is urgent reading. Essed′s volume represents a landmark in the study of race and ethnicity and will interest researchers, lecturers, students, and professionals of discourse analysis, policy and women′s studies, sociology, psychology, management, psychotherapy, and qualitative methodology. "Without getting bogged down in nit-picking about the definition of racism, the author has succeeded in presenting the true face of racism and has investigated the sociology and psychology of racism. A marvellously subtle and skillful report of everyday racism." --Counselling Psychology Quarterly "In this provocative book, Philomena Essed weaves insights from psychology, sociology, discourse analysis, and women′s studies into an original and important new theoretical framework. She combines a phenomenological approach of describing the experiences of individuals with a structural account of inequality." --Contemporary Psychology "Racism remains a contested concept in both popular and scholarly discourse. Typically unaware of the extent of institutionalized racism, whites generally deny that racism exists. People of color typically see things differently and interpret the dominant group perspective as insensitive and insincere. Philomena Essed′s groundbreaking volume, Understanding Everyday Racism tackles this ambiguity surrounding both popular and scholarly interpretations of racism and sheds considerable light on the difference between dominant and subordinate group views. . . . Essed′s volume makes an extremely important and unique contribution to our understanding of contemporary racism." --Contemporary Sociology

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Contenuti

PART ONE: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATION OF MACRO AND MICRO DIMENSIONS OF RACISM
Racism Today
The Social-political Context
The Netherlands
Some Notes on Contemporary Racism in the US
Women and Racism
Black Women with Higher Education
Conceptualizing Racism as a Process
Racism
A Working Definition
The Notion of Everyday Racism
PART TWO: METHODOLOGICAL QUESTIONS
Introduction
Methodology within Methodology
Accounts
The Interviewees
Interviewing
Method of Analysis
PART THREE: KNOWLEDGE AND COMPREHENSION OF EVERYDAY RACISM
Introduction
General Knowledge and Scenarios of Racism
Comprehending Racism
Subjective and Objective Assessments of the Comprehension of Racist Events
A Procedure for the Assessment of Racist Events
Assessing Real-life Explanations of `Unfair Treatment'
Relating Cognitive to Social Processes of Understanding
The Acquisition of Knowledge of Racism
Reconstructing Black Women's General Knowledge of Racism
PART FOUR: ANALYZING ACCOUNTS OF RACISM
Introduction
Analyzing Accounts of Racism
Knowledge About Racism as an Evaluative Category in Verbal Accounts
Heuristics, Interpretations and Evaluations in Reconstructions of Racist Events
Racist Complications in Job Applications
What happened?
Examples of Real-life Accounts
Conclusions
PART FIVE: THE INTEGRATION OF RACISM IN EVERYDAY LIFE: THE STORY OF ROSA N.
Introduction
Rosa N.
A Fragmentary Representation of Everyday Racism
The Process of Everyday Racism in the Experience of Rosa N.
The Macro Context of Experiences of Racism
Conclusions
Rosa N. and the Shared Experience of Racism
PART SIX: THE STRUCTURE OF EVERYDAY RACISM
Racism as Conflict Maintaining Process
Hidden Agendas
The Dominations of Euro-American Values
The Basic Agenda
Perpetuation of Exclusion and Subordination
The Agenda of the Agenda
Problematizing those who Problematize Racism
The Structure of Everyday Racism
CONCLUSIONS
APPENDICES
Appendix 1. Interview Guide
Appendix 2. General Statements about Racism
Appendix 3. `Rosa N. File'

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0803942567
• ISBN 13: 9780803942561
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Germania