Beyond white privilege : how the politics of privilege hijacked anti-racism /

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Author / Creator:Pierce, Andrew J., 1981- author.
Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
©2024
Description:125 pages ; 25 cm
Language:English
Series:Routledge research in race and ethnicity
Routledge research in race and ethnicity.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13503332
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ISBN:9781032609454
1032609451
9781032609430
1032609435
9781003461210
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"In the world of academic anti-racism, the idea of white privilege has become the dominant paradigm for understanding racial inequality. Its roots can be traced to radical critiques of racial capitalism, however its contemporary employment tends to be class-blind, ignoring the rifts that separate educated, socially mobile elites from struggling working-class communities. How did this come to be? Beyond White Privilege traces the path by which an idea with radical potential got 'hijacked' by a liberal anti-racism that sees individual prejudice as racism's primary manifestation, and white moral transformation as its appropriate remedy. This 'politics of privilege' proves woefully inadequate to the enduring forms of racial and economic injustice shaping the world today. For educated white elites, privilege recognition has become a ritual of purification distinguishing them from their working-class counterparts. For the white working class, whose privileges have eroded, but not disappeared, the politics of privilege often looks like class scapegoating - a process that has helped to drive increasing numbers of alienated whites into the arms of white nationalist movements. This book offers an alternative path: an 'interest convergence' approach that recaptures the radical potential of white privilege discourse by emphasizing converging, cross-racial interests - in education, housing, climate justice, and others - that reveal that the 'racial bribe' of whiteness is ultimately contrary to the interests of working-class whites. It will therefore appeal to readers across the social sciences and humanities with interests in issues of racial inequality and social justice"--
Other form:Online version: Pierce, Andrew J., 1981- Beyond white privilege Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 9781003461210

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505 0 |a Introduction: the walk of shame -- The path of privilege -- Building a wall: psychological barriers to the effectiveness of privilege pedagogy and politics -- Lost wages: a fork in the path of privilege -- Interest convergence: forging a path to racial and economic justice -- Our schools, our homes, our planet -- Morality, self-interest, and social change: a philosophical detour -- Conclusion: recentering racial justice. 
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