The Mask of Microaggressions: Studies of Racism in the U.S.
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 230
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 230
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Racism that is communicated through racial microaggressions is more difficult to locate and reconstruct than the racism that was built into law during enslavement and Jim Crow.
The Mask of Microagressions: Studies of Racism in the US presents tools that aid in understanding historical sources of racism and how racism has transformed into microaggressions today. This book is organized in a way that presents historical backdrops to racism as it applies to subjects, such as education, with a brief analysis. The chapters indicating present microaggressions are sketches that provide students with a segue between overt and subtle racism. At the end of the book are original historical sources that provide contextual frames for subjects being presented. Following each chapter, we have provided questions, potential research projects, and suggestions for further reading that will assist students in learning more about historical racism and present racial microaggressions.
PART I Racism: Then and Now
The Slave History of the Black Family (Part I)
The Slave History of the Black Family (Part II)
Masculinity
Femininity
Religion: Where and How Shall We Worship?
Ghetto Politics: From New Deal to the Great Society
Impact of the Brown Decision: A Case Study in
Houston, Texas
Education
Medicine: Health Care
Reproduction
Black Politics
African Americans and Social Injustice
The Melting Pot and Assimilation: The Experiences
of the Urban Black
The Death of Jim Crow: School Desegregation and
Urban Flight
PART II Primary Documents
Sojourner Truth – Ain’t I A Woman?
iv The Mask of Microaggressions
The Emancipation Proclamation
General William T. Sherman’s Special Field
Order No. 15 (1865)
Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta
Compromise Speech
Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
Executive Order 9981, Desegregation of the
Armed Forces (1948)
Brown v Bd of Education
The Southern Manifesto (March 1956)
The Negro Family: The Case for National
Action (The Moynihan Report)
The Negro Family: The Case for National
Action (The Moynihan Report)
Historical Post Script: What’s Old Is New