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A review by agathe_
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- lien USA- GB. Différences, similarités avec le Mexique ? "We relied heavily on the American narrative as a tool to find ourselves." Désinformation en conséquence. Reni Eddo-lodge effectue ce travail de réinformation. Post-WWI race riots, colour bars à Nottingham, "nigger hunters", mouvements des droits civiques britanniques ("league of coloured people"), recherche académique sur les couples mixtes, race relations act... Influence des USA (pays avec la même langue que le RU et avec un lien fort): "'Mugging' was an American term, imported from police statements and press coverage in black-concentrated cities. The fear of mugging was imported, too." "taking their lead from the United States, the police began to enact a new strategy." "While the black British history is starved of oxygen, the US struggle against racism is globalised into the story of the struggle against racism that we should look to for inspiration - eclipsing the Black British story so much that we convince ourselves that Britain has never had a problem with race."
- "because history is written by the winners, evidence of police harassment of people of colour in the early 1980s is hard to come by." // Saul Alinsky. Elle donne ensuite des séries de faits divers révélateurs.
Liens avec l'actualité:
- scandale du Windrush actuellement
- affaire Stephen Lawrence survenue en 1993 alors qu'il y a encore des updates aujourd'hui (enquetes sur le laxisme de la police)
- En faveur de la discrimination positive: "Opposing positive discrimination based on apprehensions about getting the best person for the job means inadvertently revealing what you think talent looks like, and the kind of person in which you think talent resides. Because, if the current system worked correctly, and if hiring practices were successfullt recruiting and promoting the right people for the right jobs in all circumstances, I seriously doubt that so many leadership positions would be occupied by white middle-aged men. Those who insist on fairness fail to recognise that the current state of play is far from fair."
- White privilege as an absence of the negative consequences of racism, an absence of "less likely to succeed because of my race"
- "there is an unattributed definition of racism that defines it as prejudice plus power"
- problème des enfants de couleur adoptés mal préparés au racisme par des parents blancs
- "why don't white people think they have a racial identity?"
- déséquilibre critiques du racisme / racist statements dans les médias en termes de passion
- intersectionality: tt le monde n'expérimente pas la discrimination de la même façon.
- "when we think about inequality, we are encouraged to think of both race and class as distinct and separate. They're not."
- "because history is written by the winners, evidence of police harassment of people of colour in the early 1980s is hard to come by." // Saul Alinsky. Elle donne ensuite des séries de faits divers révélateurs.
Liens avec l'actualité:
- scandale du Windrush actuellement
- affaire Stephen Lawrence survenue en 1993 alors qu'il y a encore des updates aujourd'hui (enquetes sur le laxisme de la police)
- En faveur de la discrimination positive: "Opposing positive discrimination based on apprehensions about getting the best person for the job means inadvertently revealing what you think talent looks like, and the kind of person in which you think talent resides. Because, if the current system worked correctly, and if hiring practices were successfullt recruiting and promoting the right people for the right jobs in all circumstances, I seriously doubt that so many leadership positions would be occupied by white middle-aged men. Those who insist on fairness fail to recognise that the current state of play is far from fair."
- White privilege as an absence of the negative consequences of racism, an absence of "less likely to succeed because of my race"
- "there is an unattributed definition of racism that defines it as prejudice plus power"
- problème des enfants de couleur adoptés mal préparés au racisme par des parents blancs
- "why don't white people think they have a racial identity?"
- déséquilibre critiques du racisme / racist statements dans les médias en termes de passion
- intersectionality: tt le monde n'expérimente pas la discrimination de la même façon.
- "when we think about inequality, we are encouraged to think of both race and class as distinct and separate. They're not."