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A Reckoning with Racism
Changing the Conversation
Series: - Transnational Migration and Education, Volume: 9
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The politics of racism have returned with a bang. What was once a whisper is now a roar in the wake of public outrage over charges of police racism that claimed the lives of racialized minorities and Indigenous peoples. Yet confusion and uncertainty unsettle the challenge of clarifying the nature and scope of racism in general, systemic racism in particular, resulting in a glaring disconnect between public perceptions and lived experiences. Reckoning with Racism is themed around the prospect of problematizing the idea of racism as articulated, understood, and debated in response to new realities, emergent demands, and contested dynamics. A profoundly new racism world is evolving, one so fundamentally different from the iterations of the past, as to trigger a foundational shift in reconceptualizing how see, think and talk about and act on racism. Changing the conversation on racism must also acknowledge its uncanny knack of reinventing itself, while intersecting with other axes of identity and differentiation to amplify the inequalities of exclusion.
Augie Fleras obtained his Ph.D. in Maori Studies and Social Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He worked as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada, but has since retired. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association for his longstanding contributions to the field. Canadian Multiculturalism @50 (Brill, 2021) is one of his latest publications.
Preface: A Year Like No Other
PART 1: Calling out Racism
1 Contesting Racism: Evolving Realities, Shifting Discourses
â1 Introduction: Racism in the Spotlight
â2 Calling out Racism: Polite Fictions, Impolitic Truths
â3 Overview and Chapter Contents
â4 New Perspectives, Challenging Pathways
2 Problematizing Racism: Riddle, Mystery, Enigma
â1 Introduction: A Contested Domain
â2 Defining Racism: A Riddle
â3 Definitions of Racism
â4 Theorizing Racisms: Ideological vs. Structural Paradigms
â5 Critical Race Theory as Structural Racism
3 Race, Racialization, Racialized Supremacy
â1 Introduction: The Power of an Illusion
â2 Race Mattered: Racism as Race
â3 Race Still Matters
â4 Policing Race, Racing Police: A Few Bad Apples or Rotten Institutional Barrel?
â5 Practicing Race: Race as Racialization
â6 Race Will Matter
â7 Whiteness: Racialized Privilege, Racializing Power
PART 2: Doing Racism
4 Ideological Racisms: Racism 1.0
â1 Introduction: Conceptualizing How Racisms Work
â2 Hate Racisms: Ideology as Animus
â3 Implicit Bias: A Closet Racism
â4 Colourblind Racism â A Racism for Neoliberal Times
â5 Hate Racism Redux: White Supremacy, White Nationalism, White Identity Politics
5 Structural Racisms: Racism 2.0
â1 Introduction: Beyond Prejudice
â2 Institutional Racism: Structural Barriers, Systemic Bias
â3 Infrastructural Racism: Embedded in the Foundation
â4 Putting Infrastructural Racism to the Test: Is Canada a Racist Society?
â5 Conclusion: Ideological Racism 1.0 vs. Structural Racism 2.0
6 Experiential Racisms: Racism 3.0
â1 Introduction: Upending Racism
â2 Microaggressions: Experiencing Racism
â3 Intersectionality of Racism
â4 The Intersectionality of Gendered Violence
â5 Diverse Minorities, Different Worlds, Divergent Experiences
PART 3: Undoing Racism
7 Fronting up to Racism: Costs, Causality, Continuities
â1 Introduction: Expanding the Conversation
â2 Racism Matters: Costs and Consequences
â3 Racism and Causality â Its Complicated
â4 More Racisms: Reality or Perception?
â5 Accounting for Its Persistence: An Enigma
8 Rethinking Anti-Racism: From Moment to Movement
â1 Introduction: Re/Conceptualizing Anti-Racism
â2 Rooting out Racisms: Different Levels, Varying Strategies
â3 Why Conventional Anti-Racism Interventions Are Destined to Fail?
â4 Canadian Multiculturalism: Anti-Racism or More Racism
â5 Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism: Forging an Allyship
9 Demystifying the Racialized Academy, Decoding Ivory Tower Racisms
â1 Introduction: A Racialized Academy â Itâs Not What You Think
â2 Racialized Exclusions in the Academy: Surveying the Terrain
â3 Accounting for the Disparities: Racist? Racialized? Racism?
â4 Reappraising Racisms in/of the Academy
PART 4: Calling in Post-Racism
10 Toward a Racial Reckoning
â1 Introduction: Shifting Realities, Contested Dynamics
â2 Re-envisioning Racism: Seeing It in a New Light
â3 Reframing the Idea: Rethinking Racism
â4 A Discursive Shift: Re-walking the Talk
â5 Retorquing Anti-Racism: From Moment to Movement
â6 A Re-reckoning with Canada: Calling in a New Reality
â7 Final Words: Recalibrating the Conversation, Resetting the Reckoning, Calling in a Post-Racism
References
Index
PART 1: Calling out Racism
1 Contesting Racism: Evolving Realities, Shifting Discourses
â1 Introduction: Racism in the Spotlight
â2 Calling out Racism: Polite Fictions, Impolitic Truths
â3 Overview and Chapter Contents
â4 New Perspectives, Challenging Pathways
2 Problematizing Racism: Riddle, Mystery, Enigma
â1 Introduction: A Contested Domain
â2 Defining Racism: A Riddle
â3 Definitions of Racism
â4 Theorizing Racisms: Ideological vs. Structural Paradigms
â5 Critical Race Theory as Structural Racism
3 Race, Racialization, Racialized Supremacy
â1 Introduction: The Power of an Illusion
â2 Race Mattered: Racism as Race
â3 Race Still Matters
â4 Policing Race, Racing Police: A Few Bad Apples or Rotten Institutional Barrel?
â5 Practicing Race: Race as Racialization
â6 Race Will Matter
â7 Whiteness: Racialized Privilege, Racializing Power
PART 2: Doing Racism
4 Ideological Racisms: Racism 1.0
â1 Introduction: Conceptualizing How Racisms Work
â2 Hate Racisms: Ideology as Animus
â3 Implicit Bias: A Closet Racism
â4 Colourblind Racism â A Racism for Neoliberal Times
â5 Hate Racism Redux: White Supremacy, White Nationalism, White Identity Politics
5 Structural Racisms: Racism 2.0
â1 Introduction: Beyond Prejudice
â2 Institutional Racism: Structural Barriers, Systemic Bias
â3 Infrastructural Racism: Embedded in the Foundation
â4 Putting Infrastructural Racism to the Test: Is Canada a Racist Society?
â5 Conclusion: Ideological Racism 1.0 vs. Structural Racism 2.0
6 Experiential Racisms: Racism 3.0
â1 Introduction: Upending Racism
â2 Microaggressions: Experiencing Racism
â3 Intersectionality of Racism
â4 The Intersectionality of Gendered Violence
â5 Diverse Minorities, Different Worlds, Divergent Experiences
PART 3: Undoing Racism
7 Fronting up to Racism: Costs, Causality, Continuities
â1 Introduction: Expanding the Conversation
â2 Racism Matters: Costs and Consequences
â3 Racism and Causality â Its Complicated
â4 More Racisms: Reality or Perception?
â5 Accounting for Its Persistence: An Enigma
8 Rethinking Anti-Racism: From Moment to Movement
â1 Introduction: Re/Conceptualizing Anti-Racism
â2 Rooting out Racisms: Different Levels, Varying Strategies
â3 Why Conventional Anti-Racism Interventions Are Destined to Fail?
â4 Canadian Multiculturalism: Anti-Racism or More Racism
â5 Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism: Forging an Allyship
9 Demystifying the Racialized Academy, Decoding Ivory Tower Racisms
â1 Introduction: A Racialized Academy â Itâs Not What You Think
â2 Racialized Exclusions in the Academy: Surveying the Terrain
â3 Accounting for the Disparities: Racist? Racialized? Racism?
â4 Reappraising Racisms in/of the Academy
PART 4: Calling in Post-Racism
10 Toward a Racial Reckoning
â1 Introduction: Shifting Realities, Contested Dynamics
â2 Re-envisioning Racism: Seeing It in a New Light
â3 Reframing the Idea: Rethinking Racism
â4 A Discursive Shift: Re-walking the Talk
â5 Retorquing Anti-Racism: From Moment to Movement
â6 A Re-reckoning with Canada: Calling in a New Reality
â7 Final Words: Recalibrating the Conversation, Resetting the Reckoning, Calling in a Post-Racism
References
Index
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