ISBN:
9781503627796
,
1503627799
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Boersema, Jacob R Can we unlearn racism?
DDC:
305.809/068
Keywords:
White people Race identity
;
White people Attitudes
;
Racism
;
Post-apartheid era
;
Post-apartheid era
;
Race relations
;
Racism
;
Whites ; Attitudes
;
Whites ; Race identity
;
South Africa Race relations
;
South Africa
;
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
White without whiteness -- Coming to terms with whiteness -- Elites and white identity politics -- Populism and white minoritization -- White embodiment and the working class -- Whiteness at home -- Unlearning racism at school -- Conclusion : learning from South Africa.
Abstract:
"In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race. While white South Africans continue to enjoy considerable power at the top levels of industry, they have become a demographic minority, politically subordinate to the black South African population. To be white today means having to adjust to a new racial paradigm. In this book, Jacob Boersema argues that this adaptation requires nothing less than unlearning racism: confronting the shame of a racist past, acknowledging privilege, and, to varying degrees, rethinking notions of nationalism. Drawing on more than 150 interviews with a cross-section of white South Africans--representationally diverse in age, class, and gender--Boersema details how they understand their whiteness and depicts the limits and possibilities of individual, and collective, transformation. He reveals that the process of unlearning racism entails dismantling psychological and institutional structures alike, all of which are inflected by emotion and shaped by ideas of culture and power. Can We Unlearn Racism? pursues a question that should be at the forefront of every society's collective consciousness. Theoretically rich and ethnographically empathetic, this book offers valuable insights into the broader sociological process of unlearning, relevant today to communities all around the world"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503627796
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781503627796
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503627796
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781503627796
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