Reconciled to Jargon

Authors

  • Barbara Beckwith White People Challenging Racism

Abstract

As I try to understand persistent racial equality in the U.S., I find myself reading dense books that are full of in-group language. Ordinarily, I’d bypass books that use such terminology. And yet, I’ve been hanging in there: racism is too important to turn away from just because those who study it most closely use language that turns me off.

Author Biography

Barbara Beckwith, White People Challenging Racism

Writer, author of What Was I Thinking? Reflecting on Everyday Racsim; National Writers Union-Boston Chapter co-chair; co-facilitator of White People Challenging Racism: Moving fromTalk to Action classes at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA. Degrees: BA (Wellesley College), MEd (Tufts University), MS-Print Journalism (Boston University).

Published

2013-06-02

How to Cite

Beckwith, B. (2013). Reconciled to Jargon. Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, 3(1). Retrieved from https://wpcjournal.com/article/view/9327

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2013): Understanding & Dismantling Privilege

Section

Creative Works & Self-Reflections

License

This journal is an academic publication. Its sole purpose is the dissemination of knowledge to as wide an audience as possible. The journal is free to individuals and institutions.

Copyrights for contributions published in this journal are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal.

Copies of this journal or articles in this journal may be distributed for research or educational purposes free of charge and without permission. However commercial use of the journal or the articles contained herein is expressly prohibited without the written consent of the author.


NOTE TO AUTHORS:  
A new model, the Creative Commons approach, with split copyright is rapidly evolving and worth considering.

http://creativecommons.org/choose/