Racing to justice : transforming our conceptions of self and other to build an inclusive society
- Responsibility
- John A. Powell ; foreword by David R. Roediger.
- Imprint
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.
- Physical description
- xxv, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- powell, john a., 1947-
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-289) and index.
- Contents
-
- Acknowledgments 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. Whites Will Be Whites: The Failure to Interrogate Racial Privilege
- 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 Afterword
- References
- Index.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Publisher's summary
-
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 race, identity, and social policy provide an outline for laying claim to our shared humanity and a way toward healing ourselves and securing our future. Racing to Justice challenges us to replace attitudes and institutions that promote and perpetuate social suffering with those that foster relationships and a way of being that transcends disconnection and separation.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Subjects
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2012
- ISBN
- 9780253006295 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0253006295 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780253007353 (ebk.)
- 0253007356 (ebk.)
