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Author Jung, Moon-Kie, author.

Title Beneath the surface of white supremacy : denaturalizing U.S. racisms past and present / Moon-Kie Jung
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity
Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.
Contents 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
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 Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 10, 2015)
Subject Racism -- United States
Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Minorities -- Social conditions
Race relations
Racism
Rassismus
Ethnizität
Minderheit
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject United States
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804795227
0804795223