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Book SynopsisWhat do you think is meant by the term post-racial' and how far do you think we've come, as a country, toward achieving it? Helen Fox, a white teacher and scholar, asked variations of this question to 87 high school and college students, educators, administrators, community organizers, international visitors, and tribal leaders across the country. Their stories reveal how far we are from a post-racial ideal even in the most liberal of communities. Despite her long experience as an anti-racist educator, Fox was surprised to learn how deeply the lives of people of color continue to be shaped by race, and how hard they have to work to ignore or overcome assumptions, remarks, exclusion, and at times, blatant hostility from whites. The kinds of racism they experience depend on their gender, their religion, their geographical location, their skin tone, their forms of speech and expression, their socioeconomic class, their aspirations, their determination to be outspoken or stoic, the kinds
Table of ContentsContents: «This Town Is So Liberal, There’s No Such Thing as Race.» – Are We Post-Racial Yet? – «Santa Just Is White, Kids.» – Racism by Any Other Name – Dumping On the Poor – Racism as a Complex System – The Way Forward.
