Jane H. Hill

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The Everyday Language of White Racism (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture.

• provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racism
• reveals how racializing discourse-talk and text that produces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people to them-facilitates a victim-blaming logic
• integrates a broad and interdisciplinary range of literature from sociology, social psychology, justice studies, critical legal studies, philosophy, literature, and other disciplines that have studied racism, as well as material from anthropology and sociolinguistics
• Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series

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Autor

Jane H. Hill is Regents' Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served as President of the American Anthropological Association, and was awarded the Viking Fund Medal in Anthropology in 2005.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444304749
• Artikelnr.: 38306868

Rezensionen

"Recommended [to] Most levels/libraries." (CHOICE, November2009)

"This book makes an important contribution to the body of criticalrace scholarship in deconstructing how language is used toperpetuate racism and in doing so validates the author'schallenge to the common assumption that 'white racism has goneunderground.'" (People with Voices, April 2009)"Resonating far beyond its focus on the US, this is a lucid,compelling, committed and highly original account of thefundamental aspects of routine language that help racism thriveamidst its everyday denial."
-Professor Ben Rampton, King's College London

"The Everyday Language of White Racism is an extremelyimportant book. Jane Hill raises readers' awareness for

thepotential danger which confronts all of us; i.e. that 'race' andracially based practices which are frequently expressed in indirectand covert ways would become part of common sense and thusessentialized. This is also a very timely book because it points usto the many instances in everyday life where discrimination stilloccurs and proposes ways how to challenge social exclusion."
-Ruth Wodak, Distinguished Professor of DiscourseStudies, Lancaster University

"Hill's academic credentials give her the authority to writethis disquieting book. The care she uses to make her case willcompel even skeptics to reconsider the way they speak about otherpeople."
-Otto Santa Ana, University of California, LosAngeles

"For the many Americans who believe that racism is on thedecline in the contemporary United States, The Everyday Language ofWhite Racism will be both eye-opening and thought-provoking.Challenging the commonsense belief that racism is rooted inindividual, intentional feelings of hatred or prejudice, Jane Hillshows that racism is produced through language in which raciststereotypes circulate, whether deliberately, unwittingly, orsomewhere in between. Hill's magisterial command of a widerange of scholarship provides rich theoretical and politicalcontext for her acute analyses of racist language in the media,public discourse, and private talk. The result is an engaging andimportant discussion of the enduring yet often invisible presenceof racism in American daily life."
-Mary Bucholtz, Department of Linguistics, Universityof California, Santa Barbara