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Fire in the Heart - How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice (Paperback)
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Fire in the Heart - How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
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While many white Americans played serious roles in the abolition
movement against slavery and in the civil rights movement of the
fifties and sixties, among other efforts, their stories are not
well known. Perhaps this unawareness is a logical consequence of
the sense that white racism has outweighed antiracism through
history, but if we are interested in the possibilities of social
change, we need to understand both the processes that perpetuate
racism as well as those that lead in the direction of racial
justice. By looking at the stories of these white activists, we can
determine how people who are not themselves victims of
discrimination come to develop a commitment towards racial justice.
Fire in the Heart presents the first in-depth study of the
processes through which white Americans become activists for racial
justice. The book reports powerful accounts of the development of
racial awareness drawn from in-depth interviews with fifty white
activists in the fields of community organizing, education and
criminal justice reform. Drawing extensively on the rich interview
material, Mark Warren shows how white Americans can develop a
commitment to racial justice not just because it is the right thing
to do but because they embrace the cause as their own. Contrary to
much contemporary thinking on racial issues-like the idea that we
can increase white commitment to racial justice simply by teaching
people about the realities of racism or by appealing to whites to
see their material interests in such justice-Warren finds that such
cognitive and rational processes alone do little to move whites to
action. Rather, the motivation to take and sustain action for
racial justice is profoundly moral and relational. Warren shows how
white activists come to find common cause with people of color when
their core values are engaged, as they build relationships with
people of color that lead to caring, and when they develop a vision
of a racially just future that they understand to benefit
themselves and other whites as well as people of color. Warren
reveals the perspectives of white people who are working day-to-day
to build not a post-racial America but rather the foundations for a
truly multiracial America rooted in a caring, human community with
equity and justice at its core.
Fire in the Heart is an unprecedentedly comprehensive examination
of the complex dynamics and dilemmas white people face in working
in multiracial organizations committed to systemic change in
America's racial order, and provides a deeper understanding of and
appreciation for the role that white people can play in efforts to
promote racial justice.
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