Are You Calling Me a Racist?: Why We Need to Stop Talking about Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change

Are You Calling Me a Racist?: Why We Need to Stop Talking about Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change

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Despite decades of anti-racism workshops and diversity policies in corporations, schools, and nonprofit organizations, racial conflict has only increased in recent years. 

Drawing from her own experience as an educator and activist, as well as extensive interviews and analyses of contemporary events, Sarita Srivastava shows that racial encounters among well-meaning people are ironically hindered by the emotional investment they have in being seen as good people. Diversity workshops devote energy to defending, recuperating, educating, and inwardly reflecting, with limited results, and these exercises often make things worse. These feel-good politics of race, Srivastava explains, train our focus on the therapeutic and educational, rather than on concrete practices that could move us towards true racial equity. In this type of approach to diversity training, people are more concerned about being 
called a racist than they are about changing racist behavior.

Are You Calling Me a Racist? is a much-needed challenge to the status quo of diversity training, and will serve as a valuable resource for anyone dedicated to dismantling racism in their communities, educational institutions, public or private organizations, and social movements.

FormatSoftcover
Author Sarita Srivastava
No. of Pages352
Publication Year2024
Publisher NameNYU Press
Shipping Dimensions2.54 x 15.88 x 23.5 cm
Shipping Weight0.608 kg