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The Everyday Language of White Racism
Jane H. Hill
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Description for The Everyday Language of White Racism
Hardback. 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. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 257 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 592.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405184540
SKU
V9781405184540
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About Jane H. Hill
Jane H. Hill is Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as President of the American Anthropological Association, and was awarded the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology in 2005.
Reviews for The Everyday Language of White Racism
"Recommended [to] Most levels/libraries." (CHOICE, November 2009) "This book makes an important contribution to the body of critical race scholarship in deconstructing how language is used to perpetuate racism and in doing so validates the author’s challenge to the common assumption that 'white racism has gone underground.'" (People with Voices, April 2009)