Seeing Race Again : Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines

Luke Charles Harris

ISBN 10: 0520300971 / ISBN 13: 9780520300972

Editore: UCAL POD Feb 2019, 2019

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Neuware - Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines' research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others. By the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice. Scholars mounted insurgent efforts to discredit some of the most odious intellectual defenses of white supremacy in academia, but the disciplines and their keepers remained unwilling to interrogate many of the racist foundations of their fields, instead embracing a framework of racial colorblindness as their default position. This book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicology, literary studies, sociology, and gender studies, Seeing Race Again documents the profoundly contradictory role of the academy in constructing, naturalizing, and reproducing racial hierarchy. It shows how colorblindness compromises the capacity of disciplines to effectively respond to the wide set of contemporary political, economic, and social crises marking public life today.

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• Titolo: Seeing Race Again : Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines
• Editore: UCAL POD Feb 2019
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520300971
• ISBN 13: 9780520300972
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 229 L x 152 A x 29 P (millimetri) 229 millimetri di larghezza per 152 millimetri di altezza per 29 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 772 grammi

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Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others. By the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice. Scholars mounted insurgent efforts to discredit some of the most odious intellectual defenses of white supremacy in academia, but the disciplines and their keepers remained unwilling to interrogate many of the racist foundations of their fields, instead embracing a framework of racial colorblindness as their default position.

This book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicology, literary studies, sociology, and gender studies, Seeing Race Again documents the profoundly contradictory role of the academy in constructing, naturalizing, and reproducing racial hierarchy. It shows how colorblindness compromises the capacity of disciplines to effectively respond to the wide set of contemporary political, economic, and social crises marking public life today.
 

Informazioni sull'autore

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is Professor of Law at University of California, Los Angeles, and Columbia University.
 
Luke Charles Harris is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vassar College.
 
Daniel Martinez HoSang is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University.
 
George Lipsitz is Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.