{"id":46073,"date":"2016-03-16T20:04:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T20:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46073"},"modified":"2016-06-18T23:24:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T23:24:04","slug":"the-r-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46073","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;R&#8217; Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitebackpublishing.com\/books\/the-r-word\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8216;R&#8217; Word<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitebackpublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">Biteback Publishing<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-27<br \/>\n224 pages<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 9781849549424<br \/>\neBook ISBN: 9781785900099<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kurtbarling\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kurt Barling<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Journalism<br \/>\n<em>Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitebackpublishing.com\/books\/the-r-word\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitebackpub.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/book\/image\/3125\/cover_9781849549424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Race and racism remain an inescapable part of the lives of black people. Daily slights, often rooted in fears and misperceptions of the \u2018other\u2019, still damage lives. But does race matter as much as it used to? Many argue that the post-racial society is upon us and racism is no longer a block on opportunity \u2013 Kurt Barling doubts whether things are really that simple.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since, at the age of four, he wished for \u2018blue eyes and blond hair\u2019, skin colour has featured prominently as he, like so many others, navigated through a childhood and adolescence in which \u2018blackness\u2019 de\u00adfined and dominated so much of social discourse. But despite the progress that has been made, he argues, the \u2018R\u2019 word is stubbornly resilient.<\/p>\n<p>In this powerful polemic, Barling tackles the paradoxes at the heart of anti-racism and asks whether, by adopting the language of the oppressor to liberate the oppressed, we are in fact paralysing ourselves within the false mythologies inherited from raciology, race and racism. Can society escape this socalled \u2018race-thinking\u2019 and re-imagine a Britain that is no longer \u2018Black\u2019 and \u2018White\u2019? Is it yet possible to step out of our skins and leave the colour behind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;R&#8217; Word Biteback Publishing 2015-11-27 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781849549424 eBook ISBN: 9781785900099 Kurt Barling, Professor of Journalism Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom Race and racism remain an inescapable part of the lives of black people. Daily slights, often rooted in fears and misperceptions of the \u2018other\u2019, still damage lives. But does race matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8413,17,26,394,10],"tags":[23245,23246],"class_list":["post-46073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-communications","category-monographs","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-biteback-publishing","tag-kurt-barling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46074,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46073\/revisions\/46074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}