RT Book
T1 Being-in-America: white supremacy and the American self
A1 Richardson, Ronald Kent
LA English
PP New York Berlin Bruxelles Chennai Lausanne Oxford
PB Peter Lang
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/189313489X
AB "White supremacy and American style individual autonomy are mutually supportive and co-dependent. Attacking white racism will not dislodge white supremacy, which the author contends is the greatest danger facing America. That can only be accomplished by making concurrent and significant modifications in American style individualism. Yet, white supremacist thinking, feeling and acting and American individualism are protected by what the author describes as The White Supremacist Collective Unconscious, a culturally determined mental construct that Americans assimilate as they grow into adulthood, which endows all Americans, regardless of race, with a white supremacist mental orientation to one degree or another. Drawing on his personal experiences as an African American growing up in the United States, and on his research, the author details the development and workings of that unconscious, and the impact of white supremacy on the national character"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN E184.A1
SN 9781433194115
SN 9781433194122
SN 9781433194139
K1 Racism : United States
K1 White people : Race identity : United States
K1 White nationalism : United States
K1 National characteristics, American
K1 Group Identity : United States
K1 USA : White supremacy : Rassismus : Identität