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Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
Source: Paul Kivel
MSRP: $18.95 Average Cost: $10.10
Continuously at the top of New Society Publishers' best-seller list for five years, Uprooting Racism has sold over 25,000 copies since its first printing. Substantially revised and expanded, the new edition has more tools to help white people understand and stand-up to racism.
Uprooting Racism explores the manifestations of racism in politics, work, community, and family life. It moves beyond the definition and unlearning of racism to address the many areas of privilege for white people and suggests ways for individuals and groups to challenge the structures of racism. Uprooting Racism's welcoming style helps readers look at how we learn racism, what effects it has on our lives, its costs and benefits to white people, and what we can do about it.
In addition to updating existing chapters, the new edition of Uprooting Racism explores how entrenched racism has been revealed in the new economy, the 2000 electoral debacle, rising anti-Arab prejudice, and health care policy. Special features include exercises, questions, and suggestions to engage, challenge assumptions, and motivate the reader towards social action. The new edition includes an index and an updated bibliography.
Reviews of: Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
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Posted on November 22, 2008 9:00 AM PST
Price Paid: $10.00
Recommends this product or service? Yes.
Advanced Look at Racism and Privilege
UPROOTING RACISM is the type of book that greatly benefits people who have already managed to get past their immediate reaction of defensiveness when topics of racism and white privilege come up.
It's very direct about what the problems are and how it's up to white people to do the majority of the work to fix them. You can't lift a car off yourself, after all, if you're under it. The car needs to move.
The effect of all of this, though, is to make you feel like a terrible person, just for being white. There are better ways to get across the message that we need to work towards change a lot more than we are now, than making you feel crappy for being born into privilege.
That said, it's still an excellent book that, if you've already managed to get past your innate issues with being called a racist, will be a wonderful read.
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Posted on November 21, 2008 8:12 PM PST
2 of 2 people found this review helpful:
Price Paid: $15.29
Recommends this product or service? No.
Not the way to send a message
To me, this book was just a complete waste. One of the big things about books on racism, is they generally need to be delivered properly to avoid either a) making you feel like a horrid person and b) making you feel as if the book was a complete and utter waste. This book was a little bit of a, and a little bit of b. Instead of any positive message or understanding with racism, the book was choc full of reminders of what we did for racism to truly come into being, and what the author thinks it makes us feel now. It was just not a good book.
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Posted on November 21, 2008 12:27 PM PST
1 of 1 people found this review helpful:
Price Paid: $5.00
Recommends this product or service? Yes.
Great Place To Start On The White Ally Path
I am a white male, and this book was recommended to me by a diversity/anti-racism teacher at a local university. I bought it used on Amazon for about $5.
Certainly not comprehensive, this book is a great starting place for any European American who realizes that American society is still full of inequities along color and gender lines.
It goes into the history of colonization, and how the social structures that were put in place centuries ago continue to affect our current racial climate in subtle, unintentional, and even systemic ways.
The author is also a white male and touches on the issues of African Americans, Latinos, and gender roles.
Again, a good starting place for white folk, especially men, to begin expanding their awareness on diversity and anti-racism issues.
