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Everyday Language of White Rac
Contributor(s): Hill, Jane H. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1405184531     ISBN-13: 9781405184533
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Published: October 2008
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Annotation: In "The Everyday Language of White Racism," Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture.
provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racism
reveals how racializing discourse--talk and text that produces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people to them--facilitates a victim-blaming logic
integrates a broad and interdisciplinary range of literature from sociology, social psychology, justice studies, critical legal studies, philosophy, literature, and other disciplines that have studied racism, as well as material from anthropology and sociolinguistics

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics
Dewey: 306.440
LCCN: 2008013078
Series: Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.7" W x 9.4" L (0.95 lbs) 240 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 11/01/2009
Multicultural Review 12/01/2009 pg. 72
 
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In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture.
  • provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racism
  • reveals how racializing discourse--talk and text that produces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people to them--facilitates a victim-blaming logic
  • integrates a broad and interdisciplinary range of literature from sociology, social psychology, justice studies, critical legal studies, philosophy, literature, and other disciplines that have studied racism, as well as material from anthropology and sociolinguistics
  • Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series
 
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