Understanding and Managing Sophisticated and Everyday Racism

Victoria Showunmi; Carol Tomlin

doi:10.5771/9781498567107

Summary

Sophisticated Racism: Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Everyday Racism adopts a fresh approach to the study of racism. Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin identify the prevalence of sophisticated racism and explore how it manifests itself in society, particularly in the workplace.

The authors narrate examples of everyday racism from the lived experiences of Black women. They take the reader on a compelling journey from the sources of racism through narratives of disquieting racist events to the destination of affirming approaches to preserving a sense of self and individual identity in the face of sophisticated racism.

The authors explain how the interplay between Black women and White women originates in historical patterns of behavior which emerged on the plantations during enslavement. The term ‘White women syndrome’ has been coined to represent attempts to defend the limited space for female success by denigrating and excluding Black women. A unique feature of the book is that it reaches beyond the historical context to the provision of strategies for managing sophisticated and everyday racism in contemporary society.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-6709-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-6710-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 182
Product type: Book Titles

1. Frontispiece: The Black Swan No access
2. Dedication No access
3. Contents No access
4. 1. Victoria Showunmi No access
  2. Carol Tomlin No access
5. List of Figures No access
6. 1. Victoria’s Story No access
  2. Carol’s Story No access
1. Black Women in the United Kingdom No access
2. Ways of Knowing No access
3. Structure of the Book No access
4. Note No access
1. Blackness and Whiteness No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Understandings of Racial Ethnicities: The Historical Context of ‘Blackness’ No access
3. The Tangled Web of Blackness in the ‘Big House’: A Metaphor No access
4. Colourism in the ‘Big House’ No access
5. Strategic Behaviours in the ‘Big House’: A Typology No access
6. The Tangled Web of the Big House No access
7. Psychological Aggression and the Contemporary Workplace No access
8. From the Big House to the Workplace: Patterns Persist No access
9. Story Part 1: Sophisticated Racism No access
10. Story Part 2: The Impact of Sophisticated and Everyday Racism on the Black Psyche No access
11. White Women in the ‘Big House’ and Their Legacy No access
12. The Role of Women in the Plantocracy No access
13. Interracial Relationships: Black Exploitation and Humiliation No access
14. The Black Woman: The Myth of the Seductive Temptress No access
15. The White Woman: The Threat of the Black Woman No access
16. Black Women in the Contemporary Workplace No access
17. Black Women and Feminism No access
18. Black Culture and Multiculturalism No access
19. New Terms for Minority Ethnic Groups: Ethnicities and Terminology No access
20. Whiteness No access
21. Skin Colour Hierarchies: From Plantocracy to Contemporary Society No access
22. Colourism in Contemporary Society No access
23. White Rage No access
24. The Collective ‘Othering’ of Black People No access
25. A Black Identity? No access
26. A Racial Caste in Class No access
27. Shifting Identities No access
28. Summary and Conclusion No access
29. Note No access
1. 1. Definition No access
2. 1. The Framework No access
3. Equity and Diversity No access
4. The Experience of Racism No access
5. Raw Racism in Contemporary Society No access
6. Sophisticated Racism in a School Context No access
7. Sophisticated Racism in the Academy No access
8. Racial Trauma No access
9. Racial Micro-aggressions No access
10. UK Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities: The Report No access
11. White Supremacy No access
12. Reverse Racism No access
13. Stereotyping No access
14. Whiteness No access
15. Evolution: From Everyday Racism to Sophisticated Racism No access
16. Summary No access
1. Languages of Black Women in Britain No access
2. African World View and Ethnography of Speaking No access
3. Black British Talk and the Communication Style of Women in the African Diaspora No access
4. Presentation of Self: Cultural and Linguistic Ambiguity No access
5. Presentation of Self: Those Loud [Silent] Black Girls No access
6. Non-verbal and Paralinguistic in Education No access
7. Communication Style in the Workplace No access
1. Education No access
2. Challenges with Children in Education No access
3. Parental Challenges No access
4. Participation in the Labour Market No access
5. Occupational Status and Progression No access
1. Background No access
2. Purpose of Research No access
3. 1. Black Women and Health No access
4. Black Women in Education No access
5. Identity and ‘Shifting’ No access
6. Perceptions and Expectations No access
7. Black Women and Mental Health No access
8. Research Design No access
9. Semi-structured Interviews No access
10. Ethical Issues No access
11. The Sample No access
12. Findings No access
13. Despair and Disconnection While Seeking Work No access
14. Grappling with the Terrain of Whiteness No access
15. Misrepresentation No access
16. Britishness and Identity No access
17. Summary No access
1. Introduction No access
2. UK Higher Education No access
3. 1. Data Gathering No access
  2. Theorising the Data No access
4. The Stock Story: Racial Identity Construction No access
5. 1. Author 1: Critical Incident – Progressing in Academia No access
  2. Author 2: ‘Who am I’? And Where Do I Belong in Academia? No access
  3. Author 2: Critical Incident – Cultural Dissonance No access
6. Reflecting on Our Experience of Writing the Chapter No access
7. Concluding Thoughts No access
8. Notes No access
1. The Emotional Burden of Racism No access
2. Strategies for Managing Sophisticated and Everyday Racism No access
3. Questioning No access
4. Caring No access
5. Behaving (Empowered) No access
6. Advocating No access
7. Documenting No access
8. Flip the Script and Change the Narrative No access
9. The Burden of Perfection No access
10. Swimming in Overt Racism No access
11. Parenthood in Black and White No access
12. A Hostile Reception No access
13. Conclusion No access
Chapter 9: Conclusion No access Pages 143 - 148
References No access Pages 149 - 172
Index No access Pages 173 - 180
About the Authors No access Pages 181 - 182