| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 299 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
White without whiteness -- Coming to terms with whiteness -- Elites and white identity politics -- Populism and white minoritization -- White embodiment and the working class -- Whiteness at home -- Unlearning racism at school -- Conclusion : learning from South Africa. |
| Summary |
"In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race. While white South Africans continue to enjoy considerable power at the top levels of industry, they have become a demographic minority, politically subordinate to the black South African population. To be white today means having to adjust to a new racial paradigm. In this book, Jacob Boersema argues that this adaptation requires nothing less than unlearning racism: confronting the shame of a racist past, acknowledging privilege, and, to varying degrees, rethinking notions of nationalism. Drawing on more than 150 interviews with a cross-section of white South Africans--representationally diverse in age, class, and gender--Boersema details how they understand their whiteness and depicts the limits and possibilities of individual, and collective, transformation. He reveals that the process of unlearning racism entails dismantling psychological and institutional structures alike, all of which are inflected by emotion and shaped by ideas of culture and power. Can We Unlearn Racism? pursues a question that should be at the forefront of every society's collective consciousness. Theoretically rich and ethnographically empathetic, this book offers valuable insights into the broader sociological process of unlearning, relevant today to communities all around the world"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
White people -- Race identity -- South Africa.
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White people -- South Africa -- Attitudes.
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Racism -- South Africa.
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Post-apartheid era -- South Africa.
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South Africa -- Race relations.
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Post-apartheid era. |
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Race relations. |
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Racism. |
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White people -- Attitudes. |
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White people -- Race identity. |
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South Africa. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Boersema, Jacob R. Can we unlearn racism? Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021] 9781503614765 (DLC) 2021018464 |
| ISBN |
9781503627796 electronic book |
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1503627799 electronic book |
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9781503614765 hardcover |
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9781503627789 paperback |
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