Playing the race card : exposing white power and privilege / George J. Sefa Dei, Leeno Luke Karumanchery, Nisha Karumanchery-Luik.

Author
Dei, George J. Sefa (George Jerry Sefa), 1954- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : P. Lang, c2004.
Description
xiii, 224 p. ; 23 cm.

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    • Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) v. 244. [More in this series]
    • Counterpoints, studies in the postmodern theory of education
    Summary note
    "Playing the Race Card reflects and engages the dynamic nature of racialized experience in Western contexts. It examines today's anti-racism project to discern how it might benefit from integrating strategies that work toward the development of critical consciousness as its main goal. So that the privileged and the oppressed alike may reflexively examine their own subject positions, this book identities and addresses the need to develop a working model for anti-racism strategies. Given the need to understand and move beyond static conceptions of race and racism, Playing the Race Card offers both a critique of mainstream/privileged perceptions of racial oppression as well as a direction forward within a more organic approach to social reform."--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-220) and index.
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    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • Anti-racist tapestries: threads of theory and practice
    • 1. Theorizing race & racism: focusing our discursive lens
    • 2. De-ideologizing race: ideologies, identities and illusions
    • 3. Theorizing power: rupturing dichotomies
    • 4. White power, white privilege
    • 5. The materiality of racism: democracy and dissonance
    • 6. The banality of racism: living 'within' the traumatic
    • 7. Weaving the tapestry: anti-racism theory and practice
    • 8. Cultivating culture: consciousness and resistance
    • Transcending racism, transcending trauma.
    ISBN
    0820467529 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    ^^2002156038
    OCLC
    51266234
    RCP
    H - S
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