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Understanding Racism
Theories of Oppression and Discrimination
- hephzibah strmic-pawl - Manhattanville College, USA, Manhattanville College
August 2020 | 232 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Recipient of a 2022 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)
The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.
Understanding Racism systematically examines the theories and theorists that have contributed the most to our contemporary understanding of racism in its various forms—making it easier for students to understand the multiple dynamics of how racism operates. In every chapter, activist and award-winning sociologist Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl describes the emergence of a theory and the problem it addresses; discusses the scholars who are most closely associated with the theory; and explores the strengths and limitations of the theory. From foundational theories such as Prejudice and White Privilege to contemporary theories such as Color-Blind Racism, Understanding Racism is the first text to present thirteen approaches for explaining racism in one book. The book's systematic organization and pedagogical features will help students think theoretically about race and racism at different levels of analysis, as well as reflect and discuss how to challenge racism.
The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.
Understanding Racism systematically examines the theories and theorists that have contributed the most to our contemporary understanding of racism in its various forms—making it easier for students to understand the multiple dynamics of how racism operates. In every chapter, activist and award-winning sociologist Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl describes the emergence of a theory and the problem it addresses; discusses the scholars who are most closely associated with the theory; and explores the strengths and limitations of the theory. From foundational theories such as Prejudice and White Privilege to contemporary theories such as Color-Blind Racism, Understanding Racism is the first text to present thirteen approaches for explaining racism in one book. The book's systematic organization and pedagogical features will help students think theoretically about race and racism at different levels of analysis, as well as reflect and discuss how to challenge racism.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part 1: Foundational Theories
Chapter 1: Prejudice and Discrimination (Gordon Allport and Robert Merton)
Chapter 2: White Privilege (Robert Amico, Peggy McIntosh, Paula Rothenberg, and Tim Wise)
Chapter 3: White Supremacy (Charles Mills, Andrea Smith, and hephzibah strmic-pawl)
Part 2: Micro Level Theories
Chapter 4: Implicit Bias (Anthony Greenwald, Mahzarin Banaji, and Brian Nosek)
Chapter 5: Microaggressions (Derald Wing Sue)
Part 3: Macro Level Theories
Chapter 6: Racial Formation (Michael Omi and Howard Winant)
Chapter 7: Systemic Racism (Joe Feagin)
Chapter 8: Critical Race Theory (Derrick Bell)
Part 4: From “Old Racism” to “New Racism”
Chapter 9: Laissez-Faire Racism (Lawrence Bobo, James Kluegel, and Ryan Smith)
Chapter 10: Structure and Culture (William Julius Wilson)
Chapter 11: Color-Blind Racism (Eduardo Bonilla-Silva)
Part 5: More Than Race
Chapter 12: Colorism (Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Ronald Hall, Margaret Hunter, and Kimberly Norwood)
Chapter 13: Intersectionality (Kimberlé Crenshaw)
References
Index
This is a fascinating and insightful book really starts to identify on pick some of the significant areas for academic discussion.
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