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Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory (SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations)

By Philomena Essed

Book information

Publisher
Inc, Sage Publications
Year
1991
ISBN
0803942567, 9780803942561
LCC
HT1521 .E78 1991
Google Books ID
gIpjszJFqWQC
Open Library ID
OL1543111M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7504607 bytes)
Series
SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations
Pages
54\54
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

This book compares contemporary racism in the US and the Netherlands through in-depth interviews with fifty-five black women. As an interdisciplinary analysis of gendered social constructions of racism, it breaks new ground. Essed problematizes and reinterprets many of the meanings and everyday practices that the majority of society has come to take for granted. She addresses crucial but largely neglected dimensions of racism: how it is experienced; how black women recognize its covert manifestations; how they acquire this knowledge; and how they challenge racism in everyday life. To answer these questions, over two thousand experiences of black women are analyzed within a theoretical framework that integrates the disciplines of macro- and

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