'Are You Calling Me a Racist?': Why We Need to Stop Talking about Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change

'Are You Calling Me a Racist?': Why We Need to Stop Talking about Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change

Written by:
Sarita Srivastava
Narrated by:
Sharmila Devar
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December 17, 2024
Duration
9 hours 30 minutes
Summary
Despite decades of anti-racism workshops and diversity policies in corporations, schools, and nonprofit organizations, racial conflict has only increased in recent years. 'Are You Calling Me a Racist?' reveals why these efforts have failed to effectively challenge racism and offers a new way forward.



Drawing from her own experience, as well as extensive interviews and analyses of contemporary events, Sarita Srivastava shows that racial encounters among well-meaning people are ironically hindered by the emotional investment they have in being seen as good people. Diversity workshops devote energy to defending, recuperating, educating, and inwardly reflecting, with limited results, and often make things worse. These 'Feel-Good politics of race,' Srivastava explains, train our focus on the therapeutic and educational, rather than on concrete practices that could move us towards true racial equity. In this type of approach to diversity training, people are more concerned about being called a racist than they are about changing racist behavior.



'Are You Calling Me a Racist?' is a much-needed challenge to the status quo of diversity training, and will serve as a valuable resource for anyone dedicated to dismantling racism in their communities, educational institutions, public or private organizations, and social movements.
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