Conceptualizing racism : breaking the chains of racially accommodative language /

Cazenave, Noel A., 1948-

Conceptualizing racism : breaking the chains of racially accommodative language / Noel A. Cazenave. - Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xix, 249 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.



9781442252363

2020739093


Racism in language.
Critical discourse analysis--Social aspects.
Sociolingusitics.


Electronic Books.

P120 / .C663 2016