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More Beautiful and More Terrible : The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States / Imani Perry.

Perry, Imani, author.
2011
E184.A1 P42 2011
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Title
More Beautiful and More Terrible : The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States / Imani Perry.
Author
Perry, Imani, author.
ISBN
9780814768402
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814768402.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814768402.001.0001 doi
Call Number
E184.A1 P42 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.800973
Summary
For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial inequality that plays out in law, policy, and in our local communities. One of two explanations is often given for this persistent phenomenon: On the one hand, we might be hypocritical-saying one thing, and doing or believing another; on the other, it might have little to do with us individually but rather be inherent to the structure of American society.More Beautiful and More Terrible compels us to think beyond this insufficient dichotomy in order to see how racial inequality is perpetuated. Imani Perry asserts that the U.S. is in a new and distinct phase of racism that is "post-intentional": neither based on the intentional discrimination of the past, nor drawing upon biological concepts of race. Drawing upon the insights and tools of critical race theory, social policy, law, sociology and cultural studies, she demonstrates how post-intentional racism works and maintains that it cannot be addressed solely through the kinds of structural solutions of the Left or the values arguments of the Right. Rather, the author identifies a place in the middle-a space of "righteous hope"-and articulates a notion of ethics and human agency that will allow us to expand and amplify that hope.To paraphrase James Baldwin, when talking about race, it is both more terrible than most think, but also more beautiful than most can imagine, with limitless and open-ended possibility. Perry leads readers down the path of imagining the possible and points to the way forward.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. "It Wasn't Me!"
2. It's All of Us
3. Telling Tales Out of School
4. The House That Jack Built
5. "I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me"
6. Exceptionally Yours
7. Black Taxes and White Wages
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author

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