Is it racist? Is it sexist? : why red and blue White people disagree, and how to decide in the gray areas /
"How can the judgment calls we make in everyday life create or help eradicate social inequality? Is It Racist? Is It Sexist? Two questions that seem simple on their face, but which invite a host of tangled responses. In this book, Jessi Streib and Betsy Leondar-Wright offer a new way of underst...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- White people's judgments
- The acquitters : "Every case has to be taken individually"
- The convictors : "If you're aware of it ... you find it anywhere"
- Motivated acquitters : "Politics, media ... are just always trying to force an agenda"
- Motivated convictors : "I can't think of any examples, but I feel like it happens all the time
- Moderate acquitters : "I don't even like grouping people into groups"
- Moderate convictors : "I've seen it firsthand"
- A better method for making judgment calls.