Conceptualizing racism

Conceptualizing racism: breaking the chains of racially accommodative language

by Cazenave, Noel A.

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"Conceptualizing Racism is a provocative book that confronts the language we use to discuss and understand racism. Author Noel A. Cazenave argues that American social science has, since its inception, practiced linguistic racial accommodation that blurs our understanding of systemic racism and makes it difficult to effect meaningful change. Conceptualizing Racism highlights how words matter in racism studies. The author traces the history of linguistic racial accommodation through the developme…

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  • Full title :Conceptualizing racism : breaking the chains of racially accommodative language / Noel A. Cazenave.

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"Conceptualizing Racism is a provocative book that confronts the language we use to discuss and understand racism. Author Noel A. Cazenave argues that American social science has, since its inception, practiced linguistic racial accommodation that blurs our understanding of systemic racism and makes it difficult to effect meaningful change. Conceptualizing Racism highlights how words matter in racism studies. The author traces the history of linguistic racial accommodation through the development of sociology as a discipline and illustrates how it is at play today, not only within the discipline but in public life"--Publisher's Web site.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2016

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  • Description:xix, 249 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781442252356, 1442252359
  • oclc:ocn918940726
  • LC Classification:P120.R32
  • Dewey Decimal:305.8001/4

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Sociology as autobiography -- Introduction: Racial accommodation and the misconceptualization of racism -- Understanding linguistic racial accommodation and confrontation -- Linguistic racial accommodation from slavery to the Civil Rights movement -- Linguistic racial accommodation and confrontation from the Civil Rights movement to The declining significance of race -- Theoretical fragmentation : the white backlash and its legacy of failure -- Defining racism : beyond mini-racism and the "race" as agency concept -- Confronting racially accommodative language by conceptualizing racism as a system of oppression -- Conclusion: Lessons learned and challenges remaining : toward a more honest conceptualization of racism -- Epilogue: Unfinished business in confronting racially accommodative language -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

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Subjects

Analyse critique du discours -- Aspect … Critical discourse analysis -- Social a… Kritiskt tänkande -- sociala aspekter Racism in language Racisme dans le langage Rasism Rassismus Sociolingusitics Soziolinguistik Sprache Språksociologi

Writers

Cazenave, Noel A.

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