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McEvoy, Bretton J.:
White Reckonings : The Possibilities for Transformative Justice Contributions from Anti-Racist White Activists in the United States.
Massachusetts
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2021
. - 174 S.
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Dissertation,
2021, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University))
Abstract
The historic summer of 2020 in the United States was described by many as a “racial reckoning.” In the weeks following the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police, polling showed up to 26 million U.S.-Americans taking to the streets to support Black Lives Matter and to protest violent police behavior and racial discrimination. Significantly, many of those newly activated to take part were white, but it remains to be seen whether their participation translates into longer-term material shifts in individual and collective white behavior.
This dissertation examines the endeavors – and struggles – of white people to contribute to transformative racial justice possibilities in the United States through a particular focus upon long-committed white activists operating from within two whitedominated anti-racist organizations active in the Greater Boston area: Community Change Inc. (CCI) and Showing Up for Racial Justice – Boston (SURJ-Boston). By closely engaging these select individuals and accompanying activists of color, I explore what it takes for members of a dominant class to effectively advance the cause of social justice.
Drawing upon the fields of transitional justice, critical race/whiteness theories and gender studies/masculinities, this project situates itself within the psychosocial and sociopolitical complexities of white activists’ anti-racist commitments as they seek to challenge the structures of white supremacy without ignoring their white racial particularity. I use an interpretive ethnography to guide my engagement alongside activists, relying on data collected from 30 in-depth interviews, sustained participant observation and critical self-reflexivity.
While transformative racial justice in the United States demands the visionary leadership of people of color, I argue that long-term societal change also and significantly requires sustained reckonings within and among white people. White reckonings call upon each of us as white people to start facing our own complicities in racial injustice and our alienation that is a cause and a result; to work through our internalized, individualistic and disembodied white supremacy conditioning; and to begin living out a reparative and relational politics of “taking responsibility for the white collective” in solidarity and authentic relationship with people of color.
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| Publikationsform: | Dissertation |
|---|---|
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Soziologie Afrikas Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Soziologie Afrikas > Lehrstuhl Soziologie Afrikas - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jana Hönke |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Nein |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 100 Philosophie und Psychologie 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 100 Philosophie |
| Eingestellt am: | 24 Feb 2023 07:33 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 24 Feb 2023 07:33 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/73955 |