How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America - Couverture souple

Yancy, Nina M.

 
9780197599433: How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0197599435 ISBN 13 : 9780197599433
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2022

Synopsis

In 2019, a group of Louisianans voted to create a new city in part of the Baton Rouge area. The effort drew attention not only because the decision would create a disproportionately White and wealthy city, but also because it would leave the area's considerably poorer, majority-Black school district behind. As this story suggests, local geography, politics, and prejudice are linked in American racial politics. This book explores the relationship between where White Americans live and their attitudes about race.

In How the Color Line Bends, Nina M. Yancy shows that what White people think depends on where they live--but not, as conventional wisdom might suggest, because they are more likely to feel "threatened" where race is salient. Rejecting this tendency to tacitly position White Americans as victims, this book focuses on power, agency, and positionality in the study of prejudice and place. Yancy looks at the White perspective through a number of racialized issues, including education, affirmative action, and welfare spending in cities across the United States, as well as a vivid case study of Baton Rouge. Being explicit about Whites Americans' racialized vantage point allows us to better appreciate the capacity of prejudice to ebb and flow in response to local conditions across a diverse nation. Yancy also illustrates why the "color line" remains relevant--if we appreciate the ability of that line to harden or soften, but not necessarily break.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nina M. Yancy holds a doctorate in Politics from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0197599435
ISBN 13 
9780197599433
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780197599426: How the Color Line Bends: The Geography of White Prejudice in Modern America

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0197599427 ISBN 13 :  9780197599426
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2022
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