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The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy
Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerfu...more
Paperback, 392 pages
Published
April 21st 2003
by Harvard University Press
(first published 2002)
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The content deserves four stars, but since reading this book was a little like wading knee-deep through a swamp I have demoted it to three stars.
The information was great, and I like the main idea of using a race-conscious lens through which to analyze and then transform social, political and legal structures and power distribution. The breakdown of the different dimensions of power was great and offers a very useful framework to use when discussing and analyzing power.
The downside: the book's m...more
The information was great, and I like the main idea of using a race-conscious lens through which to analyze and then transform social, political and legal structures and power distribution. The breakdown of the different dimensions of power was great and offers a very useful framework to use when discussing and analyzing power.
The downside: the book's m...more
"Racism locates the dominant explanation for the depressed socioeconomic, health, and educational condition of people of color and their over-representation in the criminal justice system in the character of the people themselves, rather than in the structures of power that create the conditions of their lives (292).
This book presents an elegant and effective deconstruction of institutionalized oppression. The invocation of the miner's canary as a metaphor is brilliant. It foregrounds a preoccup...more
This book presents an elegant and effective deconstruction of institutionalized oppression. The invocation of the miner's canary as a metaphor is brilliant. It foregrounds a preoccup...more
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Chapter 4 "Rethinking Conventions of Zero-Sum Power" is what's up! Really talks about insider/outsider dynamics and what happens to those of us on the inside trying hard to effectively make change within the system.
A thoughtful discussion of structural racism with tangible examples that stick. Not many non-fiction books can be described as a page-turner, but this one is.
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