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Work InformationAntiracism: An Introduction af Alex Zamalin
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An introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for energizing American democracyOn August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally of white nationalists and white supremacists culminated in the death of a woman murdered in the street. Those events made clear that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. However, they also brought into sharp relief another American tradition: antiracism. While racists marched and chanted in the streets, they were met and matched by even larger numbers of protesters calling for racism’s end. Racism is America’s original and most enduring sin, with well-known historic and contemporary markers: slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, redlining, mass incarceration, police brutality. But racism has always been challenged by an opposing political theory and practice. Alex Zamalin’s Antiracism tells the story of that opposition.The most theoretically generative and politically valuable source of antiracist thought has been the black American intellectual tradition. While other forms of racial oppression—for example, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Latino racism—have been and continue to be present in American life, antiblack racism has always been the primary focus of American antiracist movements. From antislavery abolition to the antilynching movement, black socialism to feminism, the long Civil Rights movement to the contemporary Movement for Black Lives, Antiracism examines the way the black antiracist tradition has thought about domination, exclusion, and power, as well as freedom, equality, justice, struggle, and political hope in dark times.Antiracism is an accessible introduction to the political theory of black American antiracism, through a study of the major figures, texts, and political movements across US history. Zamalin argues that antiracism is a powerful tradition that is crucial for energizing American democracy. No library descriptions found. |
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 Google Books — Indlæser...GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.800973Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Ethnic and national groups ; racism, multiculturalism General Biography And History North America United StatesLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit: (3)
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The writing could have been better, it reminded me a bit of the difference in writing, both acceptable within context, between essay questions on tests and essays I would grade as finished objects. When writing an essay answer on a test I expected something resembling a brain dump, with sentences being correct but often a little jumbled in organization and a lot of repetition of certain words or phrases, usually something one tries to avoid in a polished work. In a polished essay I expected more organization and less redundancy. This book resembles the writing on a timed test, not bad but certainly not good.
The information here is extremely valuable and presented in a very straightforward manner. Any density is more like the density of a history book (event and rationale one right after another) rather than a book of theory, so that makes this far more accessible for people for whom this is truly an introduction. My complaint, a minor one, is that it is such rapid fire that I am afraid many casual readers may not be willing to work their way through it. And this is both information and a perspective that needs to be read by a large portion of the population, not just academics and students. I would have liked to have seen more effort made to distinguish the differences between being nonracist and being antiracist. The differences are here but I think more explicit contrasts would have made for a more effective book.
I would still recommend this to most readers who want to better understand racism in all its ugly forms, especially systemic and institutionalized racism. Also readers who might not realize that simply not being racist not only does little to improve the world but contributes to keeping it from getting better.
This would also, as it seems to have been designed for, make a wonderful companion text for any number of classes in various departments that deal with racism.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss. (