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Author Cazenave, Noel A., 1948- author.

Title Conceptualizing racism : breaking the chains of racially accommodative language / Noel A. Cazenave
Published Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 249 pages)
Contents Preface and Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; 1 Understanding Linguistic Racial Accommodation and Confrontation; 2 Linguistic Racial Accommodation from Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement; 3 Linguistic Racial Accommodation and Confrontation from the Civil Rights Movement to The Declining Significance of Race; 4 Theoretical Fragmentation; 5 Defining Racism; 6 Confronting Racially Accommodative Language by Conceptualizing Racism as a System of Oppression; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Index; About the Author
Summary Conceptualizing Racism is a provocative book that confronts the language we use to discuss and understand racism. The author traces the history of linguistic racial accommodation through the development of sociology of a discipline and illustrates how it is at play today, not only within the discipline but in public life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-232) and index
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Subject Racism in language.
Critical discourse analysis -- Social aspects
Sociolinguistics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Racism in language.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020739093
ISBN 9781442252363
1442252367