Book description
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…- Coming soon!
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1 author picked The Everyday Language of White Racism as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I was fascinated to see an anthropological linguist turn her analytic lens on her own culture (and mine), that of White America. What she finds is a fascinating pattern of ways that White Americans talk about race.
The observations she makes will change the way you see conversations around you. I found myself first saying, “No, surely that doesn’t happen,” but then noticing that very thing happening again and again.
From Jennifer's list on how manipulative language stokes racism.
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