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African American
American racism
anthropology
Author_Patrick Garry
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cultural majority
cultural policy
cultural whiplash
discrimination
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guilt
minority
Patrick Garry
political science
public policy
racial discrimination
racial fear
racism
social science
Product details
- ISBN 9781581825695
- Weight: 403g
- Dimensions: 162 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 14 Dec 2006
- Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Law professor Patrick Garry believes today's racial problem is not silence, but rather confusion. Accusations of racism are vague but pervasive. They have become an indictment against the very legitimacy of society as a whole. With that has come a suffocating social guilt, and that sense of guilt has resulted in a steady retreat from moral and value judgments on all cultural matters, not just those of race. Garry addresses racism in America from the perspective of the cultural majority, unlike most books on the subject that focus on issues that are important to the victims of racism. Garry instead examines how whites have allowed themselves to be marginalized in the conversation on race, how the fear of being labeled a racist has resulted in whites withdrawing from any dialogue or moral judgment involving almost all cultural matters, and how racial fear and guilt are influencing the moral health of America.
PATRICK M. GARRY holds J.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota and is a professor of law at the University of South Dakota. He has taught at the University of Utah School of Law and the George Washington University Law School and has published numerous articles on the First Amendment in basic legal reference books. In addition to being the author of six books on law, politics, and history, he has been a research adviser to the Silha Center for Media Law and Ethics at the University of Minnesota and a legal consultant to the Minnesota News Council. He lives in Vermillion, South Dakota.
