Thompson / Schaeffer / Brod White Men Challenging Racism

35 Personal Stories
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8484-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Narratives exploring the lives, experiences and feelings on racism from anti-racist white men who are committed to social justice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, Cooper

Schaeffer, Emmett

Brod, Harry

Weitere Mitwirkende

Loewen, James W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / James W. Loewen xv

Preface xxxi

Acknowledgments xxxv

Introduction: Just Living 1

Movement Elders

Herbert Aptheker, 86, radical historian; San Jose, CA 17

Stetson Kennedy, 85, journalist and Klan infiltrator; Jacksonville, FL 27

Art Branscombe, 81, fought for a racially integrated neighborhood; Denver, CO 37

Horace Seldon, 77, coalition builder; Boston, MA 44

Pat Cusick, 70, community organizer; Boston, MA 51

Nat Yalowitz, 70, social worker and organizer; New York, NY 60

Grassroots Organizing

Jesse Wimberley, 43, organizes working-class white men; West End, NC 73

Jim Hansen, 42, executive director, United Vision for Idaho; Boise, ID 82

Chip Berlet, 52, researches right wing groups; Cambridge, MA 90

Joe Fahey, 44, union official and labor organizer; Watsonville, CA 99

Mike McMahon, 60, community organizer with Central American immigrants; Houston, TX 109

Art and Politics

David Attyah, 34, graphic artist and founder of Think Again; San Francisco, CA 121

Si Kahn, 57, singer/songwriter and executive director of Grassroots Leadership; Charlotte, NC 132

Steve Bailey, 43, executive director of Jump-Start Performance Company; San Antonio, TX 143

Tim Wise, 33, writer, lecturer, social critic, and activist; Nashville, TN 152

Billy Yalowitz, 42, community-based performance director and choreographer; Philadelphia, PA 164

Challenging the System from Within

John Allocca, 39, bilingual Spanish teacher; Boston, MA 175

Bill Johnston, 60, former Boston police officer; Emerald Isle, NC 185

A. T. Miller, 43, teacher and director of multiculturalism at University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI 194

Ken Kimerling, 56, lawyer for Puerto Rican and Asian American civil rights; New York, NY 203

Monte Piliawsky, 57, teacher and historian; Detroit, MI 212

Lonnie Lusardo, 56, consultant and community organizer; Seattle, WA 222

Lee Formwalt, 51, historian and dean at a historically black college; Albany, GA 228

Nibs Stroupe, 55, minister of a multiracial congregation; Decatur, GA 237

Challenging the System from the Margins

John Cole Vodicka, 53, founder of the Prison and Jail Project; Americus, GA 249

Richard Lapchick, 56, advocate for racial and gender justice in sports and society; Orlando FL 258

Chris Shuey, 46, environmental health specialist; Albuquerque, NM 265

Terry Kupers, 58, psychiatrist, prison activist, and author; Oakland, CA 272

Rick Whaley, 51, Native American treaty rights advocate; Milwaukee, WI 280

Jim Murphy, 54, firefighter and advocate for children's rights in Southeast Asia; Boston, MA 289

The Next Generation

Sean Cahill, 38, researcher with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; New York, NY
299

Tobin Miller Shearer, 36, director of a Mennonite anti-racism initiative; Akron, PA 305

Jason Wallach, 32, grassroots coordinator for the Mexico Solidarity Network; Chicago, IL 314

Bill Vandenberg, 31, co-executive director of the Colorado Progressive Coalition; Denver, CO 322

Matt Reese, 26, community activist; Louisville, KY 330

Appendix 339

Endnotes 343

Suggestions for Further Reading 351

About the Authors 355

Über Autor(innen)

Cooper Thompson is a senior consultant at visions, a multicultural consulting organization.Emmett Schaefer is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.Harry Brod is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the editor of The Making of Masculinities.