From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country.
Vital and eye-opening, Black in White Space will be a must-read for anyone hoping to understand the lived realities of Black people and the structural underpinnings of racism in America..
An unwavering truthteller in our national conversation on race, Anderson has shared intimate and sharp insights into Black Life for decades.
From Philadelphia street-corner conversations to Anderson\'s own morning jogs through a Cape Cod vacation town, he probes a wealth of experiences to shed new light on how symbolic racism makes all Black people uniquely vulnerable to implicit bias in police stops and racial discrimination in our country.
White people typically avoid Black space, but Black people are required to navigate the White space as a condition of their existence.
He focuses in on symbolic racism, a new form of racism in America caused by the stubbornly powerful stereotype of the ghetto embedded in the White imagination, which subconsciously connects all Black people with crime and poverty regardless of their social or economic position.
In Black in White Space , Anderson brings his immense knowledge and ethnography to bear in this timely study of the racial barriers that are still firmly entrenched in our society at every class level.
Why? In essence, Elijah Anderson would argue, because these were Black people existing in White spaces.
Perfectly ordinary actions in ordinary settings--and yet, they sparked jarring and inflammatory responses that involved the police and attracted national media coverage.
Two men sitting in a coffee shop.
A college student lounging on a university quad.
A birder strolling in Central Park.
From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country
