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Are You Calling Me a Racist?: Why We Need to Stop Talking about Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change

Are You Calling Me a Racist?: Why We Need to Stop Talking about Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change

Srivastava, Sarita

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AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1479815268
ISBN13: 9781479815265
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Feb 24 2026
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

Winner, 2025 Canadian Sociology Book Award, given by the Canadian Sociological Association

Shows why diversity workshops fail and offers concrete solutions for a path forward

Despite decades of anti-racism workshops and diversity policies in corporations, schools, and nonprofit organizations, racial conflict has only increased in recent years. Are You Calling Me a Racist? reveals why these efforts have failed to effectively challenge racism and offers a new way forward.

Drawing from her own experience as an educator and activist, as well as extensive interviews and analyses of contemporary events, Sarita Srivastava shows that racial encounters among well-meaning people are ironically hindered by the emotional investment they have in being seen as good people. Diversity workshops devote energy to defending, recuperating, educating, and inwardly reflecting, with limited results, and these exercises often make things worse. These Feel-Good politics of race, Srivastava explains, train our focus on the therapeutic and educational, rather than on concrete practices that could move us towards true racial equity. In

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