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Book SynopsisWhite Race Discourse exposes a race discourse displayed by a group of sixty-one white college students in the United States. Foster’s discussion of “racetalk” bridges both the theoretical and methodological gaps between whiteness scholars and discourse analysts.
Trade ReviewFoster (Univ. of Arkansas at Pine Bluff) offers a rigorous analysis of white racial discourse today, producing a study that is noteworthy for both its theoretical sophistication and its clarity and approachability. In a series of well-crafted chapters, the author unpacks the fundamental features of race talk, shining a bright light on those elements that explain away, justify, and otherwise facilitate the reproduction of racial inequality. More than just another study of whiteness, this is a penetrating account of dominant uses and understandings of race and power. . . . The study offers a nice complement to Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's widely influential Racism without Racists (CH, Jan'04, 41-3121; 4th ed., CH, Jan'14, 51-2955). Summing Up: Highly Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above. * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsTables Transcription Symbols Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction: How Does Racism Continue in Exist in U.S. Society? Chapter 2: Bureaucrats of Whiteness Chapter 3: Rationalizing Segregation Chapter 4: Products of the Retrogression Chapter 5: Defending White Supremacy Chapter 6: Antiracism in Progress Chapter 7: Conclusion: Toward a New Race Discourse Appendix Selected Bibliography Index About the Author
