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This book problematizes the ways in which the discourses of
colorblindness and post-raciality are articulated in the age of
Obama. Pinder debunks the myth that race does not matter and
reconsiders the presumptive hegemony of whiteness through the
dialectics of visibility and invisibility of race.
This book examines and analyzes Americanization,
De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America. It
shows that America's cultural homogeneity, which is based on
"whiteness," has important consequences for racialized ethnic
groups in America. The question, then, of who is an American
becomes overriding. Although racialized ethnic groups remain
unassimilated into the dominant culture, the recognition and
celebration of the non-dominant cultures are important for
multiculturalism. However, non-dominant cultures are tied to
cultural otherness. Cultural otherness is looked upon as
Un-Americanness. For this reason, there is a need to move beyond
multiculturalism. "Postmulticulturalism," then, would be the new
possibility.
David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the
most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth
century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where,
after the American Revolutionary War, slavery was abolished, Walker
devoted his life to fighting slavery and antiblack racism. In this
book, Sherrow O. Pinder brings to light Walker’s lived
experience, activism, and the synchronizing of his Christian
principles and reformist radicalism to demonstrate why and how
slavery must be eliminated. Walker’s call for blacks to regain
their natural rights guaranteed under God’s law and the
Declaration of Independence culminated in An Appeal to the
Coloured Citizens of the World, an enormously influential work that
is now considered a founding text of black studies. Today, given
the escalation of antiblack racism manifested in the upholding of
institutionalized violence by the state, the continued economic and
social marginality of African-Americans, and the escalation of
failing infrastructures in black neighborhoods, we cannot afford to
forget Walker’s push for racial egalitarianism: it is more urgent
than ever.
Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to
shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in
markedly new ways. In the United States, the transformation from a
manufacturing economy to a service economy escalated the need for
an abundance of flexible, exploitable, cheap workers. The
implementation of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), whose generic term is workfare, is one
of the many ways in which the government responded to capital need
for cheap labor. While there is a clear link between welfare and
low-wage markets, workfare forces welfare recipients, including
single mothers with young children, to work outside of the home in
exchange for their welfare checks. More importantly, workfare
provides an "underclass" of labor that is trapped in jobs that pay
minimum wage. This "underclass" is characteristically gendered and
racialized, and the book builds on these insights and seeks to
illuminate a crucial but largely overlooked aspect of the negative
impact of workfare on black single mother welfare recipients. The
stereotype of the "underclass," which is infused with racial
meaning, is used to describe and illustrate the position of black
single mother welfare recipients and is an implicit way of talking
about poor women with an invidious racist and sexist subtext, which
Pinder suggests is one of the ways in which "gendered racism"
presents itself in the United States. Ultimately, the book analyzes
the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in terms of
welfare policy reform in the United States.
Pinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to
shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in
markedly new ways. In the United States, the transformation from a
manufacturing economy to a service economy escalated the need for
an abundance of flexible, exploitable, cheap workers. The
implementation of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), whose generic term is workfare, is one
of the many ways in which the government responded to capital need
for cheap labor. While there is a clear link between welfare and
low-wage markets, workfare forces welfare recipients, including
single mothers with young children, to work outside of the home in
exchange for their welfare checks. More importantly, workfare
provides an "underclass" of labor that is trapped in jobs that pay
minimum wage. This "underclass" is characteristically gendered and
racialized, and the book builds on these insights and seeks to
illuminate a crucial but largely overlooked aspect of the negative
impact of workfare on black single mother welfare recipients. The
stereotype of the "underclass," which is infused with racial
meaning, is used to describe and illustrate the position of black
single mother welfare recipients and is an implicit way of talking
about poor women with an invidious racist and sexist subtext, which
Pinder suggests is one of the ways in which "gendered racism"
presents itself in the United States. Ultimately, the book analyzes
the intersectionality of race, gender, and class in terms of
welfare policy reform in the United States.
Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States, in
order to account for the never ending discrimination toward
racialized ethnic groups including First Nations, blacks, Chinese,
and Mexicans, revisits the history of whiteness in the United
States. It shows the difference between remembering a history of
human indignities and recreating one that composes its own textual
memory. More specifically, it reformulates how the historically
reliant positionality of whiteness, as a part of the everyday
practice and discourse of white supremacy, would later become
institutionalized. Even though "whiteness studies," with the
intention of exposing white privilege, has entered the realm of
academic research and is moving toward antiracist forms of
whiteness or, at least, toward antiracist approaches for a
different form of whiteness, it is not equipped to relinquish the
privilege that comes with normalized whiteness. Hence, in order to
construct a post white identity, whiteness would have to be
denormalized and freed of it of its presumptive hegemony.
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Ethnic Groups in the United States, in order to account for the
never ending discrimination toward racialized ethnic groups
including First Nations, blacks, Chinese, and Mexicans, revisits
the history of whiteness in the United States. It shows the
difference between remembering a history of human indignities and
recreating one that composes its own textual memory. More
specifically, it reformulates how the historically reliant
positionality of whiteness, as a part of the everyday practice and
discourse of white supremacy, would later become institutionalized.
Even though whiteness studies, with the intention of exposing white
privilege, has entered the realm of academic research and is moving
toward antiracist forms of whiteness or, at least, toward
antiracist approaches for a different form of whiteness, it is not
equipped to relinquish the privilege that comes with normalized
whiteness. Hence, in order to construct a post white identity,
whiteness would have to be denormalized and freed of it of its
presumptive hegemony.
The purpose of this book is to examine and analyze Americanization,
De-Americanization, and racialized ethnic groups in America and
consider the questions: who is an American? And what constitutes
American identity and culture?
David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the
most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth
century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where,
after the American Revolutionary War, slavery was abolished, Walker
devoted his life to fighting slavery and antiblack racism. In this
book, Sherrow O. Pinder brings to light Walker’s lived
experience, activism, and the synchronizing of his Christian
principles and reformist radicalism to demonstrate why and how
slavery must be eliminated. Walker’s call for blacks to regain
their natural rights guaranteed under God’s law and the
Declaration of Independence culminated in An Appeal to the
Coloured Citizens of the World, an enormously influential work that
is now considered a founding text of black studies. Today, given
the escalation of antiblack racism manifested in the upholding of
institutionalized violence by the state, the continued economic and
social marginality of African-Americans, and the escalation of
failing infrastructures in black neighborhoods, we cannot afford to
forget Walker’s push for racial egalitarianism: it is more urgent
than ever.
In Black Political Thought: From David Walker to the Present,
Sherrow O. Pinder has brought together the writings and discourses
central to black political thought and African American politics,
compiling a unique anthology of speeches and articles from over 150
years of African American history. Providing in-depth examinations
and critical analyses of topics such as slavery, reconstruction,
race and racism, black nationalism and black feminism - from a
range of perspectives - students are equipped with a comprehensive
and informative account of how these issues have fundamentally
shaped and continue to shape black political thinking. Each of the
six thematic parts is framed by an introduction written by black
scholars working in the field, and a list of further readings.
Individual chapters are then enhanced by end-of-chapter questions
and author biographies. Written for the interdisciplinary field of
black studies, and other social science and humanities disciplines,
this textbook offers a unique resource for political scientists,
sociologists, historians, feminists, and the general reader of
black political thought.
American Multicultural Studies: Diversity of Race, Ethnicity,
Gender and Sexuality provides an interdisciplinary view of
multicultural studies in the United States, addressing a wide range
of topics that continue to define and shape this area of study.
Through this collection of essays Sherrow Pinder responds to the
need to open up a rich avenue for addressing current and continuing
issues of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, cultural diversity,
and education in their varied forms. Substantial thematic overlaps
are found between sections and essays, all of which are oriented
toward a single broad objective: to develop new and different ways
of addressing how multicultural issues, in their discursive
sociocultural contexts, are inextricably linked to the operations
of power. Power, as a site of resistance to which it invariably
gives rise, is tacked from a perspective that attends to the
complexities of America s history and politics.
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