Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004 - Minorities - 303 pages
Breaking the Code of Good Intentions places the current-day white experience within a political, economic and social context by exploring the perceptions of students about identity, privilege, democracy, intergroup relations. This book documents how the everyday thinking of ordinary people contributes to the perpetuation of systemic racialized inequality and identifies opportunities to challenge these patterns, with particular recommendations for the educational system of the twenty-first century. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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About the author (2004)

Melanie E. L. Bush is assistant professor in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Adelphi University. She has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and presented at a range of national conferences particularly in the fields of sociology and anthropology. Active for three decades in community struggles and academic projects for full employment, education, women's rights, against racism and for peace and justice, in 2003 she was a prize winner of the Praxis Award, given by the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists for outstanding achievement in translating knowledge into action in addressing contemporary social problems.

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