Hill The Everyday Language of White Racism

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5669-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture

In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hillprovides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal theunderlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate inAmerican culture.
* provides a detailed background on the theory of race andracism
* reveals how racializing discourse--talk and text thatproduces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people tothem--facilitates a victim-blaming logic
* integrates a broad and interdisciplinary range of literaturefrom sociology, social psychology, justice studies, critical legalstudies, philosophy, literature, and other disciplines that havestudied racism, as well as material from anthropology andsociolinguistics
* Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and CultureSeries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hill, Jane H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments vi
1 The Persistence of White Racism 1
2 Language in White Racism: An Overview 31
3 The Social Life of Slurs 49
4 Gaffes: Racist Talk without Racists 88
5 Covert Racist Discourse: Metaphors, Mocking, and theRacialization of Historically Spanish-Speaking Populations in theUnited States 119
6 Linguistic Appropriation: The History of White Racism isEmbedded in American English 158
7 Everyday Language, White Racist Culture, Respect, and Civility175
Notes 183
References 197
Index 217

Über Autor(innen)

Jane H. Hill is Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as President of the American Anthropological Association, and was awarded the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology in 2005.