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Racing to Justice : Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society /

Renowned social justice advocate John A. Powell persuasively argues that we have not achieved a post-racial society and that there is much work to do to redeem the American promise of inclusive democracy. Culled from a decade of writing about social justice and spirituality, these meditations on rac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Powell, John A. (John Anthony)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: moving beyond the isolated self
  • I. Race and racialization. 1. Post-racialism or targeted universalism? ; 2. The colorblind multiracial dilemma: racial categories reconsidered ; 3. The racing of American society: race functioning as a verb before signifying as a noun
  • II. White privilege. 4. Interrogating privilege, transforming whites ; 5. White innocence and the courts: jurisprudential devices that obscure privilege
  • III. The racialized self. 6. Dreaming of a self beyond whiteness and isolation ; 7. The multiple self: implications for law and social justice
  • IV. Engagement. 8. Lessons from suffering: how social justice informs spirituality.