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Author Boersema, Jacob R., author.

Title Can we unlearn racism? : what South Africa teaches us about whiteness / Jacob R. Boersema
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 299 pages)
Contents White without whiteness -- Coming to terms with whiteness -- Elites and white identity politics -- Populism and white minoritization -- White embodiment and the working class -- Whiteness at home -- Unlearning racism at school -- Conclusion : learning from South Africa
Summary "In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race. While white South Africans continue to enjoy considerable power at the top levels of industry, they have become a demographic minority, politically subordinate to the black South African population. To be white today means having to adjust to a new racial paradigm. In this book, Jacob Boersema argues that this adaptation requires nothing less than unlearning racism: confronting the shame of a racist past, acknowledging privilege, and, to varying degrees, rethinking notions of nationalism. Drawing on more than 150 interviews with a cross-section of white South Africans--representationally diverse in age, class, and gender--Boersema details how they understand their whiteness and depicts the limits and possibilities of individual, and collective, transformation. He reveals that the process of unlearning racism entails dismantling psychological and institutional structures alike, all of which are inflected by emotion and shaped by ideas of culture and power. Can We Unlearn Racism? pursues a question that should be at the forefront of every society's collective consciousness. Theoretically rich and ethnographically empathetic, this book offers valuable insights into the broader sociological process of unlearning, relevant today to communities all around the world"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 25, 2022)
Subject White people -- Race identity -- South Africa
White people -- South Africa -- Attitudes
Racism -- South Africa
Post-apartheid era -- South Africa
Post-apartheid era
Race relations
Racism
White people -- Attitudes
White people -- Race identity
SUBJECT South Africa -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494
Subject South Africa
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021018465
ISBN 9781503627796
1503627799