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In recent years, condemnations of racism in America have echoed from the streets to corporate boardrooms. At the same time, politicians and commentators fiercely debate racism\\u2019s very existence. And so, our conversations about racial inequalities remain muddled. In Metaracism, Brown University Professor of Africana Studies Tricia Rose cuts through the noise with a bracing and invaluable new account of what systemic racism actually is, how it works, and how we can fight back. She reveals how\\u2014from housing to education to criminal justice\\u2014an array of policies and practices connect and interact to produce an even more devastating \\u201cmetaracism\\u201d far worse than the sum of its parts. While these systemic connections can be difficult to see\\u2014and are often portrayed as \\u201ccolor-blind\\u201d\\u2014again and again they function to disproportionately contain, exploit, and punish Black people. By helping us to comprehend systemic racism\\u2019s inner workings and destructive impact, Rose shows how to create a more just America for us all.
Tricia Rose is Chancellor\\u2019s Professor of Africana Studies and the director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. She has received fellowships from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and her research has been funded by the Mellon and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations. She co-hosts with Cornel West the podcast The Tight Rope. She is the author of Longing to Tell: Black Women\\u2019s Stories of Sexuality and Intimacy, The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When we Talk About Hip Hop\\u2014and Why it Matters, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, and her new book Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives\\u2014and How We Break Free.
Shermer and Rose discuss: the policies, practices, laws, and beliefs that are racist in 2024 America and what can be done about them \\u2022 racism, structural racism, systemic racism, metaracism \\u2022 Rose\\u2019s working-class background growing up in 1960s Harlem \\u2022 deep-root cause-ism \\u2022being \\u201ccaught up in the system\\u201d \\u2022 Trayvon Martin, Kelley Williams-Bolar, and Michael Brown \\u2022 Rose\\u2019s response to Black conservative authors like Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell \\u2022 why she believes Coleman Hughes is wrong about color-blindness \\u2022 Obama, George Floyd and race relations today \\u2022 reparations.
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