Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295747994 ISBN 13: 9780295747996

Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2020

Synopsis

Insights into the racialized fear of change in US society The standoff at Cliven Bundy’s ranch, the rise of white identity activists on college campuses, and the viral growth of white nationalist videos on YouTube vividly illustrate the resurgence of white supremacy and overt racism in the United States. White resistance to racial equality can be subtle as well—like art museums that enforce their boundaries as elite white spaces, “right on crime” policies that impose new modes of surveillance and punishment for people of color, and environmental groups whose work reinforces settler colonial norms. In this incisive volume, twenty-four leading sociologists assess contemporary shifts in white attitudes about racial justice in the US. Using case studies, they investigate the entrenchment of white privilege in institutions, new twists in anti-equality ideologies, and “whitelash” in the actions of social movements. Their examinations of new manifestations of racist aggression help make sense of the larger forces that underpin enduring racial inequalities and how they reinvent themselves for each new generation.

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About the Authors

Cameron Lippard is professor of sociology at Appalachian State University. With J. Scott Carter, he is coauthor of The Death of Affirmative Action: Racialized Tactics and the Fight for College Admissions (Bristol University Press, forthcoming 2020). He is coeditor of a number of volumes, including Modern Moonshine: The Revival of White Whiskey in the Twenty-First Century (West Virginia University Press, 2018), Being Brown in Dixie: Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Immigration in the New South (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012,) and Race and Racism in the United States: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic (Greenwood). He is coeditor of the journal Sociological Inquiry.

J. Scott Carter is associate professor of sociology at the University of Central Florida. With Cameron Lippard, he is coauthor of The Death of Affirmative Action: Racialized Tactics and the Fight for College Admissions (Bristol University Press, forthcoming 2020). He is coeditor of the journal Sociological Inquiry.

David G. Embrick is associate professor of sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut. His coedited books include Globalization and America: Race, Human Rights, and Inequality (Rowman & Littlefield) and is coauthor of a forthcoming book on racial microaggressions (NYU). He is a coeditor of the journal Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and associate editor of the journal Social Problems. He coedits the book series, "Sociology of Race and Ethnicity," for the University of Georgia Press.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is professor of sociology at Duke University. He is author of Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (Rowman & Littlefield) and White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Lynne Rienner Publishers). He is a past president of the American Sociological Association.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295747994
• ISBN 13: 9780295747996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Lippard Cameron D., Carter J. Scott, Embrick David G.