Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?: Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas
Jessi Streib, "Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?: Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas"
English | ISBN: 1503637913 | 2025 | 256 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1503637913 | 2025 | 256 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
How can the judgment calls we make in everyday life create or help eradicate social inequality?
Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Two questions that seem simple on their face, but which invite a host of tangled responses. In this book, Jessi Streib and Betsy Leondar-Wright offer a new way of understanding how inequalities persist by focusing on the individual judgment calls that lead us to decide what's racist, what's sexist, and what's not.
Racism and sexism often seem like optical illusions―with some people sure they see them and others sure they're not there―but the lines that most consistently divide our decisions might surprise you. Indeed, white people's views of what's racist and sexist are increasingly up for grabs. As the largest racial group in the country and the group that occupies the most and the highest positions of power, what they decide is racist and sexist helps determine the contours of inequality.
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