Format:
207 Seiten
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Illustrationens
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21 cm
ISBN:
9781039000223
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1039000223
Content:
"Disorientation. With that one eloquent word, Ian Williams captures the impact of racial encounters on racialized people - the whiplash of race that occurs while minding one's own business. Sometimes the consequences are only irritating, but sometimes they are deadly. Spurred by the police killings and street protests of 2020, Williams realized he could offer a perspective distinct from the almost exclusively America-centric books on race topping the bestseller lists, because of one salient fact: he has lived in Trinidad (where he was never the only Black person in the room), in Canada (where he often was), and in the United States (where as a Black man from the Caribbean, he was a different kind of "only"). Inspired by the essays of James Baldwin, in which the personal becomes the gateway to larger ideas, Williams explores such things as the unmistakable moment when a child realizes they are Black; the ten characteristics of institutional whiteness; how friendship forms a bulwark against being a target of racism; the meaning and uses of a Black person's smile; and blame culture--or how do we make meaningful change when no one feels responsible for the systemic structures of the past. With these essays, Williams wants to reach a multi-racial audience of people who believe that civil conversation on even the most charged subjects is possible. Examining the past and the present in order to speak to the future, he offers new thinking, honest feeling, and his astonishing, piercing gift of language."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1039000231
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781039000230
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Williams, Ian, 1979- Disorientation Toronto : Random House Canada, 2021 ISBN 1039000231
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781039000230
Language:
English
Keywords:
Schwarze
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Ethnische Identität
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Rassendiskriminierung
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Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Soziale Situation
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