Understanding and Managing Sophisticated and Everyday Racism: Implications for Education and Work (Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century) - Softcover

Victoria Showunmi; Carol Tomlin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498567118 ISBN 13: 9781498567114

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2023

Synopsis

Sophisticated Racism: Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Everyday Racism adopts a fresh approach to the study of racism. Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin identify the prevalence of sophisticated racism and explore how it manifests itself in society, particularly in the workplace.
The authors narrate examples of everyday racism from the lived experiences of Black women. They take the reader on a compelling journey from the sources of racism through narratives of disquieting racist events to the destination of affirming approaches to preserving a sense of self and individual identity in the face of sophisticated racism.
The authors explain how the interplay between Black women and White women originates in historical patterns of behavior which emerged on the plantations during enslavement. The term ‘White women syndrome’ has been coined to represent attempts to defend the limited space for female success by denigrating and excluding Black women. A unique feature of the book is that it reaches beyond the historical context to the provision of strategies for managing sophisticated and everyday racism in contemporary society.

About this title

About the Authors

Dr. Victoria Showunmi is associate professor at University College London in the Faculty of Institute of Education.

Carol Tomlin is visiting fellow at the University Leeds.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498567118
• ISBN 13: 9781498567114
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204