Understanding & Dismantling Racism

by Barndt, Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780800662226
• ISBN10: 0800662229
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

No issue has so daunted American life and history as that of race. Joseph Barndt's powerful, personal, yet practical work reframes race and racism in a new way for a new century and offers tested ways to address it. The clearest and most practical primer on race and race relations around, this book takes specific account of our society's ongoing failure to dismantle racism, the failure of the multicultural diversity model, and the need for a deeper understanding of racism's pernicious but embedded roots.

Author Biography

Joseph Barndt has been a parish pastor and an antiracism trainer and organizer for thirty years, much of the latter work being done with Crossroads Ministry, Chicago

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Happiness Machine-A Fable	p. 1
The Dross of Racism	p. 3
The Happiness Machine and Current Reality	p. 4
A Book for White People	p. 6
And Also a Book for People of Color	p. 7
The Work of Crossroads Ministry and People's Institute	p. 8
Language and Terminology	p. 8
Other "Isms"-The Happiness Machine's Multiple Consequences	p. 10
Writing an Ending to the Fable of the Happiness Machine	p. 11
The Continuing Evil of Racism	p. 13
The Complex and Bewildering Tangle of Racism	p. 13
Our Colonial and Racist Beginnings	p. 15
From Colony to Nationhood: The Deepening of Racism	p. 17
Resistance to Racism: The Better Side of a Bitter History	p. 25
The Civil Rights Movement: The Resistance Rewrites History	p. 29
The Continuing Evil of Racism in the Twenty-First Century	p. 33
Detecting and Measuring Twenty-First Century Racism	p. 42
The Twenty-First Century: A New Beginning	p. 48
Defining Racism	p. 55
The Need for a Common Definition of Racism	p. 55
Introducing a Definition of Racism	p. 58
Exploring Prejudice	p. 60
Exploring Race	p. 62
The Misuse of Power by Systems and Institutions	p. 73
Summary	p. 82
White Power and Privilege	p. 85
From "Black Like Me" to "White Like Me"	p. 87
White Power: Not the Same as White Privilege	p. 90
A Closer Look at White Power	p. 91
A Closer Look at White Privilege	p. 95
Responses to White Power and Privilege	p. 107
Conclusion: You Can't Take It Off	p. 110
Individual Racism: The Making of a Racist	p. 111
Power[superscript 3]: Racism at Its Worst	p. 111
"Go Home and Free Your Own People"	p. 112
What and Who Is a Racist?	p. 115
"Racialization": The Mass Production of Racists and Victims	p. 120
Racial Identity Formation: The Shaping of Superior and Inferior Races	p. 123
The Making of a White Racist	p. 126
The Four Walls of Racism's Prison	p. 129
Summary and Conclusion: None of Us Are Free	p. 141
Institutionalized Racism	p. 143
The Misuse of Power by Systems and Institutions	p. 143
Taking an X-Ray of the Happiness Machine	p. 144
The Nature and Purpose of Institutions	p. 145
Defining Institutionalized Racism	p. 151
How It Got That Way: A History of Institutionalized Racism	p. 154
How It Stayed That Way: New Forms of Institutionalized Racism	p. 157
How to "See," Identify, and Analyze Institutionalized Racism	p. 165
Conclusion: The Possibility of Authentic Institutional Transformation	p. 182
Cultural Racism	p. 185
What Is Culture?	p. 187
The Creating of Race-Based Cultures	p. 190
Defining Cultural Racism	p. 195
The Race-Based Cultures of Communities of Color	p. 204
White Cultural Identity in the Twenty-First Century	p. 207
Dismantling Racism	p. 219
A Time to Tear Down...and a Time to Build	p. 219
Building Antiracist Communities of Resistance	p. 221
Planning a Jailbreak: Organizing to Dismantle Racism	p. 231
Introducing a Tool to Measure Institutional Change	p. 233
The First Half of the Continuum: Where Are We Now?	p. 236
Principles of Organizing to Move Forward	p. 243
The Second Half of the Continuum: The Three Stages of Institutional Transformation	p. 255
Conclusion: Toward a Racism-Free Twenty-First Century	p. 262
Notes	p. 269
Additional Resources	p. 277
Index	p. 285
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