A Reckoning with Racism

Changing the Conversation
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53292-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 601 g

Reihe: Transnational Migration and Education

The politics of racism have returned with a bang. What was once a whisper is now a roar in the wake of public outrage over charges of police racism that claimed the lives of racialized minorities and Indigenous peoples. Yet confusion and uncertainty unsettle the challenge of clarifying the nature and scope of racism in general, systemic racism in particular, resulting in a glaring disconnect between public perceptions and lived experiences. Reckoning with Racism is themed around the prospect of problematizing the idea of racism as articulated, understood, and debated in response to new realities, emergent demands, and contested dynamics. A profoundly new racism world is evolving, one so fundamentally different from the iterations of the past, as to trigger a foundational shift in reconceptualizing how see, think and talk about and act on racism. Changing the conversation on racism must also acknowledge its uncanny knack of reinventing itself, while intersecting with other axes of identity and differentiation to amplify the inequalities of exclusion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleras, Augie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: A Year Like No Other

PART 1: Calling out Racism

1 Contesting Racism: Evolving Realities, Shifting Discourses

1 Introduction: Racism in the Spotlight

2 Calling out Racism: Polite Fictions, Impolitic Truths

3 Overview and Chapter Contents

4 New Perspectives, Challenging Pathways

2 Problematizing Racism: Riddle, Mystery, Enigma

1 Introduction: A Contested Domain

2 Defining Racism: A Riddle

3 Definitions of Racism

4 Theorizing Racisms: Ideological vs. Structural Paradigms

5 Critical Race Theory as Structural Racism

3 Race, Racialization, Racialized Supremacy

1 Introduction: The Power of an Illusion

2 Race Mattered: Racism as Race

3 Race Still Matters

4 Policing Race, Racing Police: A Few Bad Apples or Rotten Institutional Barrel?

5 Practicing Race: Race as Racialization

6 Race Will Matter

7 Whiteness: Racialized Privilege, Racializing Power

PART 2: Doing Racism

4 Ideological Racisms: Racism 1.0

1 Introduction: Conceptualizing How Racisms Work

2 Hate Racisms: Ideology as Animus

3 Implicit Bias: A Closet Racism

4 Colourblind Racism – A Racism for Neoliberal Times

5 Hate Racism Redux: White Supremacy, White Nationalism, White Identity Politics

5 Structural Racisms: Racism 2.0

1 Introduction: Beyond Prejudice

2 Institutional Racism: Structural Barriers, Systemic Bias

3 Infrastructural Racism: Embedded in the Foundation

4 Putting Infrastructural Racism to the Test: Is Canada a Racist Society?

5 Conclusion: Ideological Racism 1.0 vs. Structural Racism 2.0

6 Experiential Racisms: Racism 3.0

1 Introduction: Upending Racism

2 Microaggressions: Experiencing Racism

3 Intersectionality of Racism

4 The Intersectionality of Gendered Violence

5 Diverse Minorities, Different Worlds, Divergent Experiences

PART 3: Undoing Racism

7 Fronting up to Racism: Costs, Causality, Continuities

1 Introduction: Expanding the Conversation

2 Racism Matters: Costs and Consequences

3 Racism and Causality – Its Complicated

4 More Racisms: Reality or Perception?

5 Accounting for Its Persistence: An Enigma

8 Rethinking Anti-Racism: From Moment to Movement

1 Introduction: Re/Conceptualizing Anti-Racism

2 Rooting out Racisms: Different Levels, Varying Strategies

3 Why Conventional Anti-Racism Interventions Are Destined to Fail?

4 Canadian Multiculturalism: Anti-Racism or More Racism

5 Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism: Forging an Allyship

9 Demystifying the Racialized Academy, Decoding Ivory Tower Racisms

1 Introduction: A Racialized Academy – It’s Not What You Think

2 Racialized Exclusions in the Academy: Surveying the Terrain

3 Accounting for the Disparities: Racist? Racialized? Racism?

4 Reappraising Racisms in/of the Academy

PART 4: Calling in Post-Racism

10 Toward a Racial Reckoning

1 Introduction: Shifting Realities, Contested Dynamics

2 Re-envisioning Racism: Seeing It in a New Light

3 Reframing the Idea: Rethinking Racism

4 A Discursive Shift: Re-walking the Talk

5 Retorquing Anti-Racism: From Moment to Movement

6 A Re-reckoning with Canada: Calling in a New Reality

7 Final Words: Recalibrating the Conversation, Resetting the Reckoning, Calling in a Post-Racism

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Augie Fleras obtained his Ph.D. in Maori Studies and Social Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He worked as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada, but has since retired. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association for his longstanding contributions to the field. Canadian Multiculturalism @50 (Brill, 2021) is one of his latest publications.