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Black in White Space - The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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Black in White Space - The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds
fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our
country. A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student
lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a coffee shop.
Perfectly ordinary actions in ordinary settings-and yet, they
sparked jarring and inflammatory responses that involved the police
and attracted national media coverage. Why? In essence, Elijah
Anderson would argue, because these were Black people existing in
white spaces. In Black in White Space, Anderson brings his immense
knowledge and ethnography to bear in this timely study of the
racial barriers that are still firmly entrenched in our society at
every class level. He focuses in on symbolic racism, a new form of
racism in America caused by the stubbornly powerful stereotype of
the ghetto embedded in the white imagination, which subconsciously
connects all Black people with crime and poverty regardless of
their social or economic position. White people typically avoid
Black space, but Black people are required to navigate the "white
space" as a condition of their existence. From Philadelphia
street-corner conversations to Anderson's own morning jogs through
a Cape Cod vacation town, he probes a wealth of experiences to shed
new light on how symbolic racism makes all Black people uniquely
vulnerable to implicit bias in police stops and racial
discrimination in our country. An unwavering truthteller in our
national conversation on race, Anderson has shared intimate and
sharp insights into Black life for decades. Vital and eye-opening,
Black in White Space will be a must-read for anyone hoping to
understand the lived realities of Black people and the structural
underpinnings of racism in America.
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