Full Description
American Antiblackness: Examining the Fields of Contemporary Racism details how, from its founding, antiblackness has been axiomatic for the United States. The goal of antiblackness is the delegitimization and dehumanization of actual blackness, from its oral and written resistance narratives to its outstanding works of literature and science, and from its hard-won political achievements to its strivings for greater freedom and social justice. This centuries-long process of delegitimization has racially segregated lives to a much larger extent than is generally acknowledged. This book provides a compelling window into how antiblackness is embedded, reproduced, and challenged in specific U.S. organizations and institutions—including educational systems, sports leagues, STEM fields, and healthcare institutions. It foregrounds how many generations of Black activists and scholars have aggressively countered these racially discriminatory traditions.
Through a notable mix of established and rising scholars across numerous disciplines, American Antiblackness unpacks how antiblackness has been analyzed in many areas of research. This book presents an intersectional approach to understanding common debates and threads in how these various fields have examined antiblackness, and it will be of critical importance to social justice activists and scholars across many disciplines, including African American studies, the social sciences, the physical sciences, the humanities, public policy programs, and art and literature studies.
Contents
Foreword, George Yancy; American Antiblackness, Philip Ewell and Joe R. Feagin; 1. Systemic Antiblackness in Education: Pathways to Understanding and Intervention, Christine A. Stanley, William A. Smith, Dave A. Louis; 2. Intersectional Solidarity Through Linked Fate: A Strategic Challenge to Antiblackness and Liberal White Supremacy in Higher Education, Angie Beeman; 3. Keeping it REAL: Countering Antiblack Racism in and through American Sport, John N. Singer; 4. State Repression and White Media Complicity in Attacks on Black Journalists, Ryan Sorrell and Lewis Raven Wallace; 5. American Antiblackness in Astrophysics, Jarita Holbrook; 6. Antiblackness and American Medicine, Linda A. Clayton and Ricardo Guthrie; 7. The Two Faces of Classicism: Antiblackness and the Classics in the Twentieth Century, Christopher Stedman Parmenter; 8. Antiblackness in Psychology, Nia Holland, Kevin Cokley and Lisa Spanierman, 9. Antiblackness in Music Theory, Jason Yust; 10. W. E. B. Du Bois's Toolkit Opposing Antiblackness: Methodological and Theoretical Innovations, Aldon Morris; 11. Antiblack Hispanicness and Black Hispanic Counterframing in U.S. Hispanic and Hispanic American Literary Studies, Alain Lawo-Sukam and Yaír André Cuenú-Mosquera; 12. Antiblackness Targeting Black Women, Sean Elias; 13. Discipline English: AmeriKKKa in Antiblack and White, David Sterling Brown; 14. Liturgies of Antiblackness: Race and Spiritual (De)Formation in American Religion, Brock Bahler
