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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Anne Warfield Rawls; Waverly Duck |
| ISBN: | 9780226703558 022670355X 9780226703695 022670369X |
| OCLC Number: | 1117639589 |
| Description: | 289 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction : racism is a clear and present danger -- "White people are nosey" and "Black people are rude" : Black and White greetings and introductory talk -- "Fractured reflections" of high-status Black men's presentations of self : non-recognition of identity as a tacit form of institutional racism -- Clashing conceptions of honesty : Black American "honesty" in the White workplace -- "A man Is one who is responsible for others" : achieving Black masculinity in the face of institutionalized stigma and racism -- The White self-interested "strong man" ideal vs. the Black practice of "submissive civility" : in a Black/White police encounter / with Jason Turowetz -- "Do you eat cats and dogs?" : student observations of racism in their everyday lives -- The interaction order of a poor Black American space : creating respect, recognition, and value in response to collective punishment -- Conclusion : digging out the lies by making the ordinary strange. |
| Responsibility: | Anne Warfield Rawls & Waverly Duck. |
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"While many Americans continue to celebrate the collapse of the old Jim Crow order as a relic of the past, Tacit Racism reminds us of the myriad ways that racism continues to influence everyday life in US society and represents what the authors describe as a 'clear and present danger' to American democracy today." -- Joe William Trotter, Jr., author of Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America "Tacit Racism is a very, very important book. It will inform, challenge, disturb, and inspire. Anne Rawls and Waverly Duck bring to the project similar aptitudes for original research and theory joined by constructive differences-the one, Rawls, is a leading expert in applied ethnomethodology; the other, Duck, is a leader in the tradition of new ethnography. She is a bit more the philosopher; he the social theorist. Tacit Racism plows the terrain from Du Bois to Garfinkel and Goffman and sows it with the seeds of rich interview data and compelling field work." -- Charles Lemert, author of Dark Thoughts: Race and the Eclipse of Society "Tacit Racism ends with a strong and urgent call for the activation of what authors Rawls and Duck refer to as a 'White double consciousness.' The authors contend that learning about the reality of a racialized interaction order could compel White Americans to develop an awareness, or a White double consciousness, of how White Americans are so deeply invested in creating inequitable social environments for Blacks and other communities of color. Overall, Tacit Racism is an interesting and thought-provoking read. As a text to introduce students to the array of interactional dynamics of white supremacy, and the ways that Whites from various backgrounds are complicit in these practices, it is a success." * Symbolic Interaction * "Tacit Racism deepens our understanding of White supremacy by documenting its 'torrential' qualities, its pervasiveness and capacity for self-perpetuation in everyday life....The research [goes] far deeper than [commonplace understandings] of 'systemic racism.'" * American Journal of Sociology * Read more...
