Playing the race card
Subtitle: exposing white power and privilege
By: George J. Sefa Dei, Leeno Luke Karumanchery, Nisha Karumanchery-Luik.
Contributors: Karumanchery, Leeno Luke, 1969-; Karumanchery-Luik, Nisha, 1965-
Series: Counterpoints, studies in the postmodern theory of education; Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Whites -- Race identity -- United States; Power (Social sciences) -- United States; Race discrimination -- United States; Social status -- United States; Social classes -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Description: "Playing the Race Card reflects and engages the dynamic nature of racialized experience in Western contexts. It examines today's anti-racism project to discern how it might benefit from integrating strategies that work toward the development of critical consciousness as its main goal. So that the privileged and the oppressed alike may reflexively examine their own subject positions, this book identities and addresses the need to develop a working model for anti-racism strategies. Given the need to understand and move beyond static conceptions of race and racism, Playing the Race Card offers both a critique of mainstream/privileged perceptions of racial oppression as well as a direction forward within a more organic approach to social reform."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-220)  and index.