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9781444304749

The Everyday Language of White Racism

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    9781444304749

  • ISBN10:

    1444304747

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2009-01-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture. provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racism reveals how racializing discourse-talk and text that produces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people to them-facilitates a victim-blaming logic integrates a broad and interdisciplinary range of literature from sociology, social psychology, justice studies, critical legal studies, philosophy, literature, and other disciplines that have studied racism, as well as material from anthropology and sociolinguistics

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
The Persistence of White Racism
Language in White Racism: An Overview
The Social Life of Slurs
Gaffes: Racist Talk without Racists
Covert Racist Discourse: Metaphors, Mocking, and the Racialization of Historically Spanish-Speaking Populations in the United States
Linguistic Appropriation: The History of White Racism is Embedded in American English
Everyday Language, White Racist Culture, Respect, and Civility
Notes
References
Index
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