The Everyday Language of White Racism
ISBN: 9781405184533 | 1405184531
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 10/20/2008
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Jane H. Hill is Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona.
In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill explores the myth that White racism is fading in the western world. Instead she reveals it to be a pervasive and highly adaptive cultural system, one that has endured in various forms for hundreds of years. Hill's incisive analysis of everyday talk and text shows how language that purports to be anti-racist is framed almost entirely by a folk theory of racism, one t... MORE
In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill explores the myth that White racism is fading in the western world. Instead she reveals it to be a pervasive and highly adaptive cultural system, one that has endured in various forms for hundreds of years. Hill's incisive analysis of everyday talk and text shows how language that purports to be anti-racist is framed almost entirely by a folk theory of racism, one t... MORE
| Preface and Acknowledgments | p. vi |
| The Persistence of White Racism | p. 1 |
| Language in White Racism: An Overview | p. 31 |
| The Social Life of Slurs | p. 49 |
| Gaffes: Racist Talk without Racists | p. 88 |
| Covert Racist Discourse: Metaphors, Mocking, and the Racialization of Historically Spanish-Speaking Populations in the United States | p. 119 |
| Linguistic Appropriation: The History of White Racism is ... MORE | p. 158 |
| Everyday Language, White Racist Culture, Respect, and Civility | p. 175 |
| Notes | p. 183 |
| References | p. 197 |
| Index | p. 217 |
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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.
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