- Title Information
- Title
- “Would you have done something during the Civil Rights movement?”: White Anti-Racist Habitus and Civic Duty in the Color-Blind Era
- Type of Resource
- text
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Ball, Amanda
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Itzigsohn, José
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Advisor
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- López-Sanders, Laura
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Reader
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. Department of Sociology
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- sponsor
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- Extent
- v, 34 p.
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- born digital
- Note:
thesis
- Thesis (A. M.)--Brown University, 2018
- Genre (aat)
- theses
- 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.
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- Topic
- Habitus (Sociology)
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- Group identity
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Washington (D.C.)
- Subject
- Topic
- Anti-racist
- Language
- Language Term (ISO639-2B)
- English
- Record Information
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- RPB
- Record Creation Date
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- 20180615
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/4cah-xz53
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