Are You Calling Me a Racist?: Why We Need to Stop Talking About Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change - Hardcover

Srivastava, Sarita

 
9781479815258: Are You Calling Me a Racist?: Why We Need to Stop Talking About Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 147981525X ISBN 13: 9781479815258
Verlag: New York University Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Shows why diversity workshops fail and offers concrete solutions for a path forward

Despite decades of anti-racism workshops and diversity policies in corporations, schools, and nonprofit organizations, racial conflict has only increased in recent years. “Are You Calling Me a Racist?” reveals why these efforts have failed to effectively challenge racism and offers a new way forward.

Drawing from her own experience as an educator and activist, as well as extensive interviews and analyses of contemporary events, Sarita Srivastava shows that racial encounters among well-meaning people are ironically hindered by the emotional investment they have in being seen as good people. Diversity workshops devote energy to defending, recuperating, educating, and inwardly reflecting, with limited results, and these exercises often make things worse. These “Feel-Good politics of race,” Srivastava explains, train our focus on the therapeutic and educational, rather than on concrete practices that could move us towards true racial equity. In
this type of approach to diversity training, people are more concerned about being called a racist than they are about changing racist behavior.

“Are You Calling Me a Racist?” is a much-needed challenge to the status quo of diversity training, and will serve as a valuable resource for anyone dedicated to dismantling racism in their communities, educational institutions, public or private organizations, and social movements.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sarita Srivastava is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science at OCAD University in Toronto.

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Verlag
New York University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
147981525X
ISBN 13 
9781479815258
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Anzahl der Seiten
337
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