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  title info:
    title: Can we unlearn racism?
    sub title: what South Africa teaches us about Whiteness
  name:
    name part: Boersema, Jacob R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 299 pages : 24 cm
  abstract: "In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race. While white South Africans continue to enjoy considerable power at the top levels of industry, they have become a demographic minority, politically subordinate to the black South African population. To be white today means having to adjust to a new racial paradigm. In this book, Jacob Boersema argues that this adaptation requires nothing less than unlearning racism: confronting the shame of a racist past, acknowledging privilege, and, to varying degrees, rethinking notions of nationalism. Drawing on more than 150 interviews with a cross-section of white South Africans--representationally diverse in age, class, and gender--Boersema details how they understand their whiteness and depicts the limits and possibilities of individual, and collective, transformation. He reveals that the process of unlearning racism entails dismantling psychological and institutional structures alike, all of which are inflected by emotion and shaped by ideas of culture and power. Can We Unlearn Racism? pursues a question that should be at the forefront of every society's collective consciousness. Theoretically rich and ethnographically empathetic, this book offers valuable insights into the broader sociological process of unlearning, relevant today to communities all around the world"--
  table of contents: White without whiteness -- Coming to terms with whiteness -- Elites and white identity politics -- Populism and white minoritization -- White embodiment and the working class -- Whiteness at home -- Unlearning racism at school -- Conclusion : learning from South Africa.
  note: Jacob R. Boersema.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sa---
  subject:
    topic: White people
    topic: Race identity
    geographic: South Africa
  subject:
    topic: White people
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: Racism
    geographic: South Africa
  subject:
    topic: Post-apartheid era
    geographic: South Africa
  subject:
    geographic: South Africa
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    topic: Post-apartheid era
  subject:
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    topic: Racism
  subject:
    topic: Whites
    topic: Attitudes
  subject:
    topic: Whites
    topic: Race identity
  subject:
    geographic: South Africa
  classification: DT1768.W55 B64 2022
  classification: 305.809/068
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    title info:
      title: Can we unlearn racism?
    name:
      name part: Boersema, Jacob R.
    origin info:
      publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
    identifier: (DLC) 2021018465
  identifier: 9781503614765
  identifier: 150361476X
  identifier: 9781503627789
  identifier: 1503627780
  identifier: 9781503627796
  identifier: 2021018464
  record info:
    record content source: CSt/DLC
    record creation date: 210419
    record change date: 20220314152925.5
    record identifier: in00004561958
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng