A Time for Change - Martha R. Bireda

A Time for Change

How White Supremacy Ideology Harms All Americans
Buch | Softcover
118 Seiten
2021
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-5742-9 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
The starting point for eliminating the virus of white supremacy ideology from our culture must be in our educational system. This book is intended as a vaccine to help eliminate the damage and to prevent future generations from being infected.
How did America become a nation obsessed with race? A Time for Change explores America’s beginnings as a “class-based” society, the creation of America’s racial consciousness through the invention of the social construction of “whiteness”, and the ways in which white supremacist ideology has been infused, reinforced and perpetuated in the collective American mind and culture through the utilization of stereotypical images of blacks. The purpose of the book is to explore how the ideology of white supremacy has done immeasurable damage to all Americans, whites as well as blacks and other persons of color. In this context, the relationship between racism and classism is explored. The book provides an opportunity by which those Americans who identify and are perceived as “white” can engage in a process of self-reflection to transcend one’s attachment to the social construction of “whiteness” and white supremacy ideology that have been forced upon them. It is the premise of this book that racial healing in this nation can only occur through a true examination of America’s history, as well as individual and collective responsibility and efforts to undo over 300 years of racist cultural conditioning.

Martha R. Bireda, PhD, is director of the Blanchard House Museum of African American History and Culture, located in Punta Gorda, Florida. For over 30 years, Dr. Bireda has consulted, lectured, written about, and provided assistance to school districts, law enforcement agencies, and corporations concerning issues related to race, gender, class, culture, and power.

Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter I: Before “Whiteness”

Chapter II: The Invention of “Whiteness”

Chapter III: The White Supremacy Culture

Chapter IV: The Indoctrination of White Supremacy

Chapter V: The Impact of “Whiteness” Indoctrination

Chapter VI: The Promise and Limits of “Whiteness”

Chapter VII: The Time for Change

Afterword

Appendix A-G

A Primer for Enlightened “Whiteness”

Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 220 mm
Gewicht 186 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10 1-4758-5742-X / 147585742X
ISBN-13 978-1-4758-5742-9 / 9781475857429
Zustand Neuware
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