Editors:
- Contemporary racism, made more explicit in the Trump era, presents an opportunity to apply a classic theory of “race relations”
- Examines white identity in the light of cultural, institutional, and individual racisms
- Probes how white racism evokes a list of unintended negative consequences, advancing the paradigm that Benjamin P. Bowser and Raymond G. Hunt set out in the classic first edition of this text
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Costs of Racism to White Americans
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The Benefits of Anti-Racism
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About this book
In this third iteration of the classic work The Impacts of Racism on White Americans (1981, 1996), a new generation of scholars make the case that racism often negatively affects Whites themselves, especially during the Trump era. In 1981, Impacts introduced an alternative understanding of racism, arguing that it went beyond white-black and/or inter-race relations. Instead, the book proposed that the problem of race in the U.S. is fundamentally one of white identity and culture and that racism has substantial negative effects on White Americans. This volume advances these propositions through three key areas: (1) Trump-era cultural and institutional racism, bolstered by the use of historical notions of racial hierarchy; (2) institutional and interpersonal racism, which in turn drive individual racist behaviors; and finally, (3) racism’s interactional sequences and how they impact anti-racism efforts. As each chapter author explores an iteration of these racisms, they also explore how racist attitudes produce disadvantage among White Americans.
Reviews
—Robert Jensen, Emeritus Professor, School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin; author of The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men (2017) and The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (2005)
“In this timely and important collection of essays, editors Austin and Bowser brilliantly point out the unintended consequences of systemic racism. The volume effectively illustrates the ways in which white racists often work against their own interests, and why. Appearing at the end of the so-called Trump era, this collection also offers hope that the fight against systemic racism is not a lost cause. Informative, timely, and well-edited, this is a work of importance, a must-read.”
—Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor, Yale University, and author of Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life (2021)
“This book presents comprehensive and authoritative evidence of the ways in which racism and the racial hierarchy associated with it harms white Americans. The harm to white people occurs in many realms including economics, housing, health, politics, education, and even sports and foreign policy. The material in this book shows that the struggle against racism has a material as well as a moral foundation. The editors provide valuable suggestions about how practical struggles against racism, cognizant of the harm it does to white people, might proceed.”
—Tom Mayer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder
Editors and Affiliations
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California State University, East Bay, Hayward, USA
Duke W. Austin, Benjamin P. Bowser
About the editors
Duke W. Austin is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Department Chair at California State University, East Bay. His teaching and research focus on race, gender, immigration, environmental justice, community engagement, and social justice pedagogy. He is a co-editor of the volume Bringing Fieldwork Back In (2012).
Benjamin P. Bowser is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at California State University, East Bay. A sociologist specializing in research methods and public health who focuses on African American communities and evaluations research, his most recent books are Racial Inequality in New York City Since 1965 (2019) and The Abandoned Mission in Public Higher Education: The Case of the California State University (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Impacts of Racism on White Americans In the Age of Trump
Editors: Duke W. Austin, Benjamin P. Bowser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75232-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75231-6Published: 26 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75232-3Published: 25 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 275
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Racism, Ethnicity Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, American Culture, US Politics