The Everyday Language of White Racism

By Jane H. Hill,

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In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture.

provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racism reveals how racializing discourse-talk and text that produces and…

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1 author picked The Everyday Language of White Racism as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I was fascinated to see an anthropological linguist turn her analytic lens on her own culture (and mine), that of White America. What she finds is a fascinating pattern of ways that White Americans talk about race.

The observations she makes will change the way you see conversations around you. I found myself first saying, “No, surely that doesn’t happen,” but then noticing that very thing happening again and again.

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