Awakening to Race Individualism and Social Consciousness in America

Name: Awakening to Race Individualism and Social Consciousness in America
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ISBN: 9780226817125

ISBN-10: 0226817121

ISBN-13: 9780226817125

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jack Turner

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The election of America’s first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of minority groups to take personal responsibility for seeking out opportunities. Often this argument is made in the name of the long tradition of self-reliance and American individualism. InAwakening to Race,Jack Turner upends this view, arguing that it expresses not a deep commitment to the values of individualism, but a narrow understanding of them. Drawing on the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin, Turner offers an original…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.90" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Jack Turner is assistant professor of political science at the University of Washington and a member of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Sexuality. He is the editor of A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau.



List of Figures


Preface



Awakening to Race


Racial Injustice and Individualist Ideals


The Problem of Acknowledgment


Democratic Individualism


From Emerson to Baldwin


A Usable Past?


Talking to Strangers



Self-Reliance and Social Responsibility


Atomistic Individualism


Awakening


The Idea of Complicity


Self-Reliance and Complicity


Action and Citizenship


Self-Reliance and Justice


Democratic Individualist Responsibility



Self-Help and Social Structure


Self-Help


Social Structure


Liberal Democracy, Properly Understood



Race and Democratic Individuality


Democratic Individuality in Black


Diagnosing White Supremacy


Reconstructing Vision


Love, Fraternity, Gender, and Democracy


Awakening to Power



Democratic Reconstitution


Creative Individuality, Radical Responsibility


The White Innocence of American Liberalism


Democratic Reconstitution


Speech and Self-Understanding


Democratic Individualism Revisited



A New Individualism


Rhetorical Jujitsu


All That Beauty


Notes


Works Cited


Index