“Would you have done something during the Civil Rights movement?”: White Anti-Racist Habitus and Civic Duty in the Color-Blind Era

Ball, Amanda

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Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Ball, Amanda (creator); Itzigsohn, José (Advisor); López-Sanders, Laura (Reader); Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Habitus (Sociology); Group identity; Washington (D.C.); Anti-racist
Extent:: v, 34 p.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/4cah-xz53

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Abstract:: Whether and how does white habitus change when actors make a concerted effort to counteract color-blind racist ideologies and the toxicity of whiteness in their daily lives? Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations of a white anti-racist group in Washington, D.C., the author focuses on how involvement in white anti-racist community organizing facilitates the process of racial identity formation and production of a white anti-racist habitus in an urban setting. The findings demonstrate that while the conscious production of a white anti-racist habitus re-orients behavior, it exists alongside the pre-existing unconscious white habitus. The white habitus manifests through the members’ rejection of the “activist” label, which ultimately informs group members’ self-perception as volunteers performing their civic duty through racial justice work, evoking American liberal ideals that frame the color-blind racist discourse.
Notes:: Thesis (A. M.)--Brown University, 2018

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Ball, Amanda, "“Would you have done something during the Civil Rights movement?”: White Anti-Racist Habitus and Civic Duty in the Color-Blind Era" (2018). Sociology Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/4cah-xz53

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