Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook144 pages2 hours
The 'R' Word
By Kurt Barling
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Race and racism remain an inescapable part of the lives of black people. Daily slights, often rooted in fears and misperceptions of the ‘other’, still damage lives. But does race matter as much as it used to? Many argue that the post-racial society is upon us and racism is no longer a block on opportunity - Kurt Barling doubts whether things are really that simple. Ever since, at the age of four, he wished for ‘blue eyes and blond hair’, skin colour has featured prominently as he, like so many others, navigated through a childhood and adolescence in which ‘blackness’ defined and dominated so much of social discourse. But despite the progress that has been made, he argues, the ‘R’ word is stubbornly resilient. In this powerful polemic, Barling tackles the paradoxes at the heart of anti-racism and asks whether, by adopting the language of the oppressor to liberate the oppressed, we are in fact paralysing ourselves within the false mythologies inherited from raciology, race and racism. Can society escape this so-called ‘race-thinking’ and re-imagine a Britain that is no longer ‘Black’ and ‘White’? Is it yet possible to step out of our skins and leave the colour behind?
Unavailable
Related to The 'R' Word
Related ebooks
The 'R' Word Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5During Racism's Remission Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDemystifying Diversity: Embracing our Shared Humanity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMixed Up: Confessions of an Interracial Couple Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConfessions of a Murphy's Law Child: Surviving Child Abuse, Racism, Poverty, and Trick-Ask Ideology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Andre Henry's All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSissie: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Lotus: A Woman's Search for Racial Identity Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fear of Black Consciousness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mommy, What’s That Number on Your Arm?: A-6374 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSkin Deep: Dispelling the Science of Race Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: A Holocaust Childhood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsImagined Truths: Myths from a Draft-Dodging Poet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Own Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCaught In-Between Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Segregated Hour: A Layman's Guide to the History of Black Liberation Theology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDENIAL: The Unspeakable Truth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beast: White Supremacy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen We Were Black Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFree as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not Tragically Colored: Freedom, Personhood, and the Renewal of Black America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Diaspora Dilemma Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy: Racism, Injustice, and How You Can Be a Changemaker Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crossing the colour line: Interracial marriage and biracial identity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Time and Place That Gave Me Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Growing Up Queer in Australia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Songs of Innocence: The Story of British Childhood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhistling in the Dark: Personal Essays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Discrimination & Race Relations For You
Men We Reaped: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Systemic Racism 101: A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Selection) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is a Black Woman Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Communion: The Female Search for Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Skin, White Masks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Origin of Others Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Counting Descent Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Blood of Emmett Till Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Jews Don’t Count Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thick: And Other Essays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Things That Make White People Uncomfortable Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Salvation: Black People and Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The 'R' Word
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews