Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly About Racism in America by George Yancy

philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 9 (1):166-173 (2019)
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Abstract

George Yancy's Backlash is a book about American racism. It is the story of what often happens when blacks dare to challenge whiteness on its hubris, or on its appallingly obvious hypocrisy. It is the story of the anger and violence that often arises in the white American in the aftermath of such a challenge, generating in him or her a need to humiliate and destroy the source of the diminished (and fragile) white sense of self. Racism is not personal, Backlash evidences. It is a manifestation of a deeply racist society. Backlash succeeds as a powerful phenomenological account of what racism (still) looks (and feels) like in The Land of the Free.

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Tina Fernandes Botts
Dartmouth College

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