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"The recent United States presidential election as well as the responses to the protests about the death of Blacks at the hands of the police has brought forward the question of racism among white voters. In Racial Resentment in the Political Mind, Darren Davis and David Wilson explore the idea that racial resentment, rather than simply racial prejudice, is the basis for growing resistance among whites to efforts to improve the circumstances faced by minorities in the United States. The authors start with the idea that there is growing sentiment among whites that they are "losing-out" and "being cut in line" by Blacks and other minorities, as reflected in an emphasis on diversity and inclusion, multiculturalism, trigger warnings, and political correctness, an increase in African Americans occupying powerful and prestigious positions, and the election of Barack Obama as the first Black president. The culprits, as they see it, are undeserving Blacks, as well as other minorities, who are perceived to benefit unfairly from, and take advantage of, resources that come at whites' expense. This rewarding of unearned resources challenges the status quo and the "rules of the game," especially as they relate to justice and deservingness. These reactions may not stem from racial prejudice or hatred toward Blacks; instead, they may result from threats to whites' sense of justice, entitlement, and status. This sentiment is occurring among everyday citizens who do not subscribe to hate-filled racial or nationalistic ideologies but rather seek to treat everyone respectfully and equally, even those who are different, and understand that rejecting others because of racial prejudice is offensive"--

Race awareness --- Whites --- African Americans --- Resentment --- Attitudes --- Attitudes --- Social aspects --- United States --- Race relations.

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"In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guaraní people of present-day Paraguay were based on reciprocal gift-giving. But the Spanish and Portuguese newcomers who arrived in the sixteenth century seemed interested in the Guaraní only to advance their own interests, either through material exchange or by getting the Guaraní to serve them. This book tells the story of how Europeans felt empowered to pursue individual gain in the New World, and how the Guaraní people confronted this challenge to their very way of being. Although neither Guaraní nor Europeans were in a position to grasp the larger meaning of the moment, their meeting was part of a global sea change in human relations and the nature of economic exchange. Brian P. Owensby uses the centuries-long encounter between Europeans and the indigenous people of South America to reframe the notion of economic gain as a historical development rather than a matter of human nature. Owensby argues that gain--the pursuit of individual, material self-interest--must be understood as a global development that transformed the lives of Europeans and non-Europeans, wherever these two encountered each other in the great European expansion spanning the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries"--

Exchange --- Reciprocity (Psychology) --- Guarani Indians --- Whites --- Economics --- History --- History --- History --- Relations with Indians --- History --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Paraguay --- Paraguay --- History --- Ethnic relations --- History.

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A rigorous study of the social meaning and consequences of racist humor, and a damning argument for when the joke is not just a joke.

Racism --- Whites --- Wit and humor --- Race identity --- Attitudes. --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- United States --- Race relations. --- alt-right. --- anti-blackness. --- far right. --- humor. --- jokes. --- law enforcement. --- police. --- politics. --- race. --- racism. --- white supremacy. --- White people

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How have whites adjusted to, contributed to and detracted from democracy in South Africa since 1994? Engaging with the literature on 'whiteness' and the current trope that the democratic settlement has failed, this book provides a study of how whites in the last bastion of 'white minority rule' in Africa have adapted to the sweeping political changes they have encountered. It examines the historical context of white supremacy and minority rule, in the past, and the white withdrawal from elsewhere on the African continent. Drawing on focus groups held across the country, Southall explores the difficult issue of 'memory', how whites seek to grapple with the history of apartheid, and how this shapes their reactions to political equality. He argues that whites cannot be regarded as a homogeneous political grouping concluding that while the overwhelming majority of white South Africans feared the coming of democracy during the years of late apartheid, they recognised its inevitability. Many of their fears were, in effect, to be recognised by the Constitution, which embedded individual rights, including those to property and private schooling, alongside the important principle of proportionality of political representation. While a small minority of whites chose to emigrate, the large majority had little choice but to adjust to the democratic settlement which, on the whole, they have done - and in different ways. It was only a small right wing which sought to actively resist; others have sought to withdraw from democracy into social enclaves; but others have embraced democracy actively, either enthusiastically welcoming its freedoms or engaging with its realities in defence of 'minority rights'. Whites may have been reluctant to accept democracy, but democrats - of a sort - they have become, and notwithstanding a significant racialisation of politics in post-apartheid South Africa, they remain an important segment of the "rainbow", although dangers lurk in the future unless present inequalities of both race and class are challenged head on.

Whites --- Democracy --- Politics and government --- South Africa --- Race relations. --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- White persons --- Race question --- Democracy. --- Integration, Racial --- Race problems --- Relations, Race --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Racism --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Since 1900 --- White people

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Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American history.

Popular culture --- Women slaves --- Freak shows --- Whites --- African Americans in popular culture --- Racism in popular culture --- Death in popular culture --- Afro-Americans in popular culture --- Sideshows --- History --- Social aspects --- Race identity --- Barnum, P. T. --- Heth, Joice, --- Barnum, Phineas Taylor, --- Parn̲am, P. T., --- Barnam, P. T., --- Northeastern States --- Northeast (U.S.) --- Northeastern United States --- United States, Northeastern --- Race relations. --- Race relations --- Barnum, Phineas Taylor --- United States --- Biography --- 19th century --- Heth, Joice --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- White people --- Enslaved women --- Women, Enslaved --- Enslaved persons