Beneath the surface of white supremacy : denaturalizing U.S. racisms past and present / Moon-Kie Jung.
Jung, Moon-Kie, author.
2015
E184.A1 J86 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Beneath the surface of white supremacy : denaturalizing U.S. racisms past and present / Moon-Kie Jung.
Author Jung, Moon-Kie, author.
ISBN 9780804795197 (paperback)
0804795193 (paperback)
9780804789387 (hardcover)
080478938X (hardcover)
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.
Language English
Description x, 247 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number E184.A1 J86 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800973
Summary "Racism has never been simple. It wasn't more obvious in the past, and it isn't less potent now. From the birth of the United States to the contemporary police shooting death of an unarmed Black youth, Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy investigates ingrained practices of racism, as well as unquestioned assumptions in the study of racism, to upend and deepen our understanding. In Moon-Kie Jung's unsettling book, Dred Scott v. Sandford, the notorious 1857 Supreme Court case, casts a shadow over current immigration debates and the "war on terror." The story of a 1924 massacre of Filipino sugar workers in Hawai'i pairs with statistical relentlessness of Black economic suffering to shed light on hidden dimensions of mass ignorance and indifference. The histories of Asians, Blacks, Latina/os, and Natives relate in knotty ways. State violence and colonialism come to the fore in taking measure of the United States, past and present, while the undue importance of assimilation and colorblindness recedes. Ultimately, Jung challenges the dominant racial common sense and develops new concepts and theory for radically rethinking and resisting racisms."--Publisher's web site.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-237) and index.
Series Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Part I. Denaturalizing common sense : Introduction : Reconsidering racism and theory
Restructuring a theory of racism
Part II. Denaturalizing the nation-state : The racial constitution of the U.S. empire-state
The racial unconscious of assimilation theories
Part III. Denaturalizing ignorance : Symbolic coercion and a massacre of Filipinos
Symbolic perversity and the mass suffering of Blacks
Conclusion : denaturalizing racisms present and future.

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