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The politics of racism awareness training
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In less than five years, racism awareness training (RAT) has established itself the reputation of being the crucial and most practical initial step against personnal and institutional racism.Abstract:
In less than five years, racism awareness training (RAT) has established itself the reputation of being the crucial and most practical initial step against personnal and institutional racism. In this discussion, I wish to examine its assumptions, stategy and action and to register my doubts about its success. Furthermore, I shall suggest that RAT can have dibious side-effects which somewhat divert people from taking positive action.read more
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Establishing the fact of whiteness
TL;DR: The authors argue that whites benefit from a host of social arrangements and institutional operations that seem, to whites, to have no racial basis, and that whiteness is a powerful means of critiquing the reproduction and maintenance of systems of racial inequality.
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"Talk does not cook rice": Beyond anti-racism rhetoric to strategies for social action
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how individual and interpersonal anti-racism strategies shape up and suggest that a top-down approach is needed as well as a bottom-up approach (e.g., addressing social psychological variables).
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Unpopular culture: The case of ‘white trash’
TL;DR: The authors examines white trash as a rhetorical identity in a discourse of difference that white Americans deploy in deciding what will count as whiteness in relation to the "social bottom" and concludes that white trash is an other within the popular culture.
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Anti‐racism and the critique of ‘white’ identities
TL;DR: The authors argue that anti-racists have failed to understand white identity as temporally and spatially contingent and fluid category, and argue that this failure has led anti-'white identity as a fixed entity, something beyond change or challenge.
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White Awareness: The Frontier of Racism Awareness Training
Judy H. Katz,Allen E. Ivey +1 more