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Everyone has an opinion on racism. The vast majority of people would vehemently deny that they or those close to them are “racist,” yet many of the most common understandings of racism are highly problematic. “If you mean no harm, then it can’t be racist.” Yes, it can. “There are anti-discrimination laws now, so racism no longer occurs.” Incorrect. “Some of my best friends are Black, so I can’t be racist.” Not true.In this sharp, open-minded, and witty book, sociologist Jennifer Patrice Sims succinctly addresses these problematic perceptions of racism as fallacies. Building on existing academic theories and drawing on her own cross-national research, two decades of teaching, and analyses of contemporary issues, she delves into the most common and insidious fallacies about racism. In revealing them to be rooted in what scholars call an “epistemology of ignorance,” she shows how these perceptions justify and uphold white supremacy (inadvertently or otherwise).

Social problems --- Racism --- Equality --- White privilege (Social structure) --- Race discrimination --- Race relations

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Using personal narrative, experiential research, and critical theoretical engagement, contributors connect localized experiences with structural and systemic racism. These examinations of the forms of racism faced by immigrants and Indigenous people in Southern Alberta reveal how institutional racism saturates Canadian culture and practice.

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By analyzing how various media told stories about Jewish celebrities and incest, Unsettling illustrates how Jewish community protective politics impacted the representation of white male Jewish masculinity in the 1990s. Chapters on Woody Allen, Roseanne Barr, and Henry Roth demonstrate how media coverage of their respective incest denials (Allen), allegations (Barr), and confessions (Roth) intersect with a history of sexual antisemitism, while an introductory chapter on Jewish second-wave feminist criticism of Sigmund Freud considers how Freud became “white” in these discussions. Unsettling reveals how film, TV, and literature have helped displace once prevalent antisemitic stereotypes onto those who are non-Jewish, nonwhite, and poor. In considering how whiteness functions for an ethnoreligious group with historic vulnerability to incest stereotype as well as contemporary white privilege, Unsettling demonstrates how white Jewish men accused of incest, and even those who defiantly confess it, became improbably sympathetic figures representing supposed white male vulnerability.

Jews in mass media. --- Mass media --- Jews, Whiteness, Incest, Popular culture, Cultural Studies, Celebrities, Community, Politics, Representation, Antisemitism, TV, Film, Literature, Stereotypes, Second-wave Feminism, Masculinity, Nonwhite, Sigmund Freud, Media Studies, White Privilege, Feminism.

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Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological AssociationFinalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsRiveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an increased awareness surrounding diversity and inclusion. In this heated context, sociologist Margaret A. Hagerman zeroes in on affluent, white kids to observe how they make sense of privilege, unequal educational opportunities, and police violence. In fascinating detail, Hagerman considers the role that they and their families play in the reproduction of racism and racial inequality in America.White Kids, based on two years of research involving in-depth interviews with white kids and their families, is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking account of how white kids learn about race. In doing so, this book explores questions such as, “How do white kids learn about race when they grow up in families that do not talk openly about race or acknowledge its impact?” and “What about children growing up in families with parents who consider themselves to be ‘anti-racist’?”Featuring the actual voices of young, affluent white kids and what they think about race, racism, inequality, and privilege, White Kids illuminates how white racial socialization is much more dynamic, complex, and varied than previously recognized. It is a process that stretches beyond white parents’ explicit conversations with their white children and includes not only the choices parents make about neighborhoods, schools, peer groups, extracurricular activities, and media, but also the choices made by the kids themselves. By interviewing kids who are growing up in different racial contexts—from racially segregated to meaningfully integrated and from politically progressive to conservative—this important book documents key differences in the outcomes of white racial socialization across families. And by observing families in their everyday lives, this book explores the extent to which white families, even those with anti-racist intentions, reproduce and reinforce the forms of inequality they say they reject.

Racism --- Socialization. --- Children of the rich --- Youth, White --- Youth, White --- Attitudes. --- Social conditions. --- Attitudes. --- United States. --- United States --- Estados Unidos --- United States --- Race relations --- Relaciones raciales --- Race relations --- American kids. --- anit-racism. --- anti-racist. --- child agency. --- child-centered interviews. --- childhood friendship. --- children’s perspectives. --- children’s social views. --- class and race. --- community volunteering. --- conundrum of privilege. --- ethnographic observations. --- ethnography. --- extracurricular activities. --- growing up with race. --- ideology. --- inequality. --- interracial interactions. --- parenting. --- political identities. --- private schooling. --- privilege. --- public schools. --- race. --- racial context. --- racial dynamics. --- racial socialization. --- racialized police violence. --- racism. --- school choice. --- segregation. --- social reproduction. --- social structure. --- socialization. --- sociology of race. --- white children. --- white privilege. --- whiteness. --- youth sports.

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Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological AssociationFinalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsRiveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an increased awareness surrounding diversity and inclusion. In this heated context, sociologist Margaret A. Hagerman zeroes in on affluent, white kids to observe how they make sense of privilege, unequal educational opportunities, and police violence. In fascinating detail, Hagerman considers the role that they and their families play in the reproduction of racism and racial inequality in America.White Kids, based on two years of research involving in-depth interviews with white kids and their families, is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking account of how white kids learn about race. In doing so, this book explores questions such as, “How do white kids learn about race when they grow up in families that do not talk openly about race or acknowledge its impact?” and “What about children growing up in families with parents who consider themselves to be ‘anti-racist’?”Featuring the actual voices of young, affluent white kids and what they think about race, racism, inequality, and privilege, White Kids illuminates how white racial socialization is much more dynamic, complex, and varied than previously recognized. It is a process that stretches beyond white parents’ explicit conversations with their white children and includes not only the choices parents make about neighborhoods, schools, peer groups, extracurricular activities, and media, but also the choices made by the kids themselves. By interviewing kids who are growing up in different racial contexts—from racially segregated to meaningfully integrated and from politically progressive to conservative—this important book documents key differences in the outcomes of white racial socialization across families. And by observing families in their everyday lives, this book explores the extent to which white families, even those with anti-racist intentions, reproduce and reinforce the forms of inequality they say they reject.

Racism --- Socialization. --- Children of the rich --- Youth, White --- Youth, White --- Attitudes. --- Social conditions. --- Attitudes. --- United States. --- United States --- Estados Unidos --- United States --- Race relations --- Relaciones raciales --- Race relations --- American kids. --- anit-racism. --- anti-racist. --- child agency. --- child-centered interviews. --- childhood friendship. --- children’s perspectives. --- children’s social views. --- class and race. --- community volunteering. --- conundrum of privilege. --- ethnographic observations. --- ethnography. --- extracurricular activities. --- growing up with race. --- ideology. --- inequality. --- interracial interactions. --- parenting. --- political identities. --- private schooling. --- privilege. --- public schools. --- race. --- racial context. --- racial dynamics. --- racial socialization. --- racialized police violence. --- racism. --- school choice. --- segregation. --- social reproduction. --- social structure. --- socialization. --- sociology of race. --- white children. --- white privilege. --- whiteness. --- youth sports.