Prejudice Across America. James Waller

Prejudice Across America



Download Prejudice Across America



Prejudice Across America James Waller ebook pdf
Publisher:
Language: English
Page: 310
ISBN: 1578063132, 9781417507153

From Publishers Weekly

"How do I translate the experiences of racial, ethnic and religious minorities... to students who, like me, are not regularly victimized by prejudice or discrimination?" In 1998, Waller, a professor of social psychology at Whitworth College in Washington State, found an initial solution to this problem by embarking on a three-week-long cross-country field trip with 21 white college students, visiting museums and memorials to America's unhealed wounds. It was a whirlwind trip: shortly after they visited the Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles (where they learned of the World War II roundups of Japanese-Americans), Waller and his students dashed off to the Museum of Tolerance across town, where they were rushed through displays about racism in America as well as the history of the Holocaust. A few days later, they learned about the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz outside San Francisco, then met an intimidating black tenant leader from Chicago's notorious public housing before venturing on to Memphis, New Orleans, Birmingham, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. It's hard to fault the ideals behind the trip, but Waller's project seems rushed, and the students' epiphanies often quite basic, as when they met a black Memphis cop who told of the slights and harassment she faces when out of uniform. Waller fleshes out the narrative with excerpts from his own and his students' journals, as well as extensive historical background on the cities they visited, providing more substance than the trip itself, but his prose style is flat. Though the trip was touted by the White House as one of the nation's "Promising Practices to Promote Racial Reconciliation," this book will be most useful to those coming to the issue with as little political awareness as Waller's students seem to have.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the

edition.

From Library Journal

Waller (Face to Face: The Changing State of Racism Across America) continues his exploration of race relations, warning that racism is not only alive and well but is in fact a tinderbox ready to explode. Unable to drive that point home to his Whitworth College students, he planned a coast-to-coast study tour, "Prejudice Across America," that would take young adults from their sheltered academic environment and introduce them to the experiences of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. This book chronicles their journey from the Japanese-American Museum in Los Angeles, focusing on the interment camp experience, to a conversation with housing authorities and residents on Chicago's South Side, to the powerful messages of Martin Luther King Jr. posted at the King Center in Atlanta. Waller provides a comprehensive history and background for each site, detailed responses of his group to these powerful images and dialogs, and a sociological analysis of the components of prejudice, including unearned white privilege, affirmative action, and the subtleties of racism today. Every reader will identify with at least one of the voices that emerged on the journey and will be inspired to be part of the solution to the discrimination that still pervades this country. Essential for all libraries.DDeborah Bigelow, Leonia P.L., NJ
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.



MORE EBOOKS:







Tags: Prejudice Across America ebook pdf djvu epub
Prejudice Across America download pdf epub djvu
Download Prejudice Across America free ebook pdf
Read Prejudice Across America online book
Prejudice Across America cheap ebook for kindle and nook
Prejudice Across America download book
James Waller ebooks
Prejudice Across America download pdf rapidshare mediafire fileserve 4shared torrent