Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality

Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Country
United States
Published
15 December 2020
Pages
296
ISBN
9780295747996

Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality

The standoff at Cliven Bundy’s ranch, the rise of white identity activists on college campuses, and the viral growth of white nationalist videos on YouTube vividly illustrate the resurgence of white supremacy and overt racism in the United States. White resistance to racial equality can be subtle as well-like art museums that enforce their boundaries as elite white spaces, right on crime policies that impose new modes of surveillance and punishment for people of color, and environmental groups whose work reinforces settler colonial norms.

In this incisive volume, twenty-four leading sociologists assess contemporary shifts in white attitudes about racial justice in the US. Using case studies, they investigate the entrenchment of white privilege in institutions, new twists in anti-equality ideologies, and whitelash in the actions of social movements. Their examinations of new manifestations of racist aggression help make sense of the larger forces that underpin enduring racial inequalities and how they reinvent themselves for each new generation.

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