What Racists Believe

Race Relations in South Africa and the United States
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-8039-5786-2
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc.

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 497 g

Reihe: SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations

In many democratic societies, racial inequality persists despite its legal abolition. At the point of entering a democratic era, South Africa is dismantling its legally structured system of inequality. However, the structures of consciousness that gave rise to, and nurtured a system of, white privilege and predominance are tenacious and enduring. In What Racists Believe, Gerhard Schutte examines a wide spectrum of evidence, showing how the in-group consciousness of whites is reproduced and illustrating the processes under which it is maintained. He explains how and why people believe in racial inequality and how they transmit these beliefs to others. The ideology of white solidarity, its perpetuation, and its breakdown is also analyzed. In the author's analysis, he separates different strands of racism: rural from urban, and moderate from militant. A final chapter compares racial attitudes in contemporary America and South America. Students, scholars, and anyone interested in race relations, sociology, anthropology, political science, and African studies will surely appreciate the fascinating study found in What Racists Believe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schutte, Gerhard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Perspective
White Solidarity?
The Emergence of the Past
The Construction of the Present
Official, Media and Religious Versions
Public Discourse and the Reconstruction of South Africa I
Right-Wing Perspectives
Public Discourse and the Reconstruction of South Africa II
Government, Corporate and Academic Perspectives
The World of Whites
Structure and Experience
Whites in the Countryside
Whites in Town I
Conservative Perspectives
Whites in Town II
Moderate Perspectives
Race and Discourse
Whites in American Race Relations
A Comparison