"Are you calling me a racist?" : why we need to stop talking about race and start making real antiracist change
(2024)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW 305.8/SRIVASTAVA,S

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
New & Popular Genl Nonfic NEW 305.8/SRIVASTAVA,S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : New York University Press, [2024]
DESCRIPTION

xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781479815258, 147981525X :, 147981525X, 9781479815265, 1479815268, 9781479815258
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Preface: The Story of Meghan and Harry, Or Why Reading About White Fragility is Not Enough -- The Feel-Good Politics of Race: Why Equity and Diversity Are So Elusive -- "Nostalgia for a World We Never Knew:" Ambivalent Encounters Between Feminism and Antiracism -- "Let's Talk, Cry a Little, and Learn About Each Other:" The Failures of Dialogue, Therapy,and Education as the Antidote to Racism -- Cry Me A River: Antiracism as Therapy -- Innocence as Warfare: Or "You're So Guilt-Ridden (You Probably Think This Chapter Is About You)" -- #Blackout Tuesday: Social Media as Antiracism? -- Why is Antiracism Elusive? (Try This Instead): The ACT Approach to Change

"Diversity and anti-racism work is too often reduced to training, therapy, education, and policy, or what the author calls "Feel-Good" approaches that focus on emotions and morality and prevent us from taking collective action for racial justice, decolonization, and equity in our organizations and communities"--