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.