"Which" Interests Are Served by the Principle of Interest Convergence? Whiteness, Collective Trauma, and the Case for Anti-Racism

Autor/in	Jackson, Taharee Apirom
Titel	"Which" Interests Are Served by the Principle of Interest Convergence? Whiteness, Collective Trauma, and the Case for Anti-Racism
Quelle	In: Race, Ethnicity and Education, 14 (2011) 4, S.435-459 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1361-3324
Schlagwörter	Critical Theory; Race; Whites; Advantaged; Racial Bias; Affirmative Action; Human Capital; Racial Discrimination; Context Effect; Social Structure + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritische Theorie; Rasse; Abstammung; White; Weißer; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Humankapital; Racial bias; Sozialstruktur
Abstract	A primary principle of critical race theory is "interest convergence," or the notion that progress toward racial equality will only be made when it converges with the interests of whites. Although I generally concur, I posit that "interest" must be rendered more complex in order to fully understand the pernicious effects of racism on all people, and on whites in particular. While laws, cultural norms, institutional practices, and even the election of Barack Obama indeed serve the material and emotional interests of whites, their psychological and moral interests are simultaneously undermined. I complicate the meaning of "interest" to show that while whites indeed benefit from racial hierarchy in numerous ways, a full deconstruction of racism and the collective trauma it induces must be considered with a more nuanced and disaggregated definition of "interest" in mind. I put forth that while whites are advantaged in real and tangible ways in an endemic system of racial dominance, the psychological and moral costs of racism far outweigh its limited benefits. (Contains 1 figure and 11 notes.) (As Provided).
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