Anger and Racial Politics: The Emotional Foundation of Racial Attitudes in America. Antoine J. Banks. New York: Cambridge UP, 2014. ISBN: 9781107049833. Hardback. 214 pages. $90 USD.
Anger and Racial Politics: The Emotional Foundation of Racial Attitudes in America. Antoine J. Banks. New York: Cambridge UP, 2014. ISBN: 9781107049833. Hardback. 214 pages. $90 USD.
whites' anti-Black feelings. Some have argued that colorblind racism is merely old-fashioned bigotry that has gone underground, but Banks demonstrates how these two structures of feeling differ. The old- fashioned racism of Southern segregationists works from the premise of Blacks' supposed biological difference from and inferiority to whites; its emotional foundation, Banks finds, is disgust at the idea of physical contamination. In contrast, the new-model racism of the colorblind works from the premise of Blacks' supposed cultural inferiority, their failure to adopt the mainstream American (read: white) cultural norms of individual responsibility, sexual continence, and so forth-- the narrative of Black cultural pathology recited by everyone from Bill Cosby to the white reactionaries chanting "pants up, don't loot." Banks discovers that the attitude of new-model racists is founded not in disgust but in anger. After the Black unrest of the late 1960s, white attitudes toward Blacks shifted from old-fashioned disgust toward blame, or as Banks puts it, "an individualistic frame that held Blacks responsible for their lower status in society because of their own moral failings" (24). The two forms of racism may have functionally similar results, but they spring from different emotional and ideological sources, which means that different emotional appeals can trigger them
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