🤎This is the best book I’ve read in the sociology program at the University of Amsterdam. The authors discuss five fallacies of racism: Individualistic Fallacy, Legalistic Fallacy, Tokenistic Fallacy, Ahistorical Fallacy, and Fixed Fallacy. As a feminist activist myself, I realized that exactly the same fallacies apply to sexism/misogyny. For example, I often get comments like “So, now Takaichi is the new prime minister of Japan. What is the problem? Sexism isn’t the problem in Japan anymore, right?”. Just because there is a female prime minister in Japan does not mean all cases and levels of sexism in Japanese society are suddenly solved or women aren’t forced to do all the housework and treated like slaves anymore.
📚Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America looks at race in a clear and accessible way, allowing students to understand how racial domination and progress work in all aspects of society. Examining how race is not a matter of separate entities but of systems of social relations, this text unpacks how race works in the political, economic, residential, legal, educational, aesthetic, associational, and intimate fields of social life. Racial Domination, Racial Progress is a work of uncompromising intersectionality, which refuses to artificially separate race and ethnicity from class and gender, while, at the same time, never losing sight of race as its primary focus. The authors seek to connect with their readers in a way that combines disciplined reasoning with a sense of engagement and passion, conveying sophisticated ideas in a clear and compelling fashion.
