Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?

Jessi Streib is Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University. She is the author, most recently, of The Accidental Equalizer, (2023). Her work has been featured or reviewed in The Atlantic, NPR, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and LA Review of Books, among others. She was awarded the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award by the American Sociological Association. Betsy Leondar-Wright, PhD, has been a community organizer, a diversity workshop facilitator, and a sociology professor teaching critical race theory and economic inequality. She is co-author of The Color of Wealth (2006), among other publications.

1. WHITE PEOPLE'S JUDGMENTS 2. THE ACQUITTERS:"Every Case Has to Be Taken Individually 3 . THE CONVICTORS : "If You're Aware of It . . . You Find It Anywhere" 4. MOTIVATED ACQUITTERS:"Politics, Media . . . Are Just Always Trying to Force an Agenda 5. MOTIVATED CONVICTORS:"I Can't Think of Any Examples, but I Feel Like It Happens All the Time 6. MODERATE ACQUITTERS:"I Don't Even Like Grouping People into Groups 7. MODERATE CONVICTORS:"I've Seen It Firsthand 8. A BETTER METHOD FOR MAKING JUDGMENT CALLS Appendix A: What We Did, Why, and How Appendix B: Interview Guide Acknowledgments Notes References Index

"Using engaging prose that will appeal to anyone curious about the reasoning behind white views on racism and sexism, Streib and Leondar-Wright expose the different logics whites use to make sense of charged situations. Highly recommended!" -Natasha Warikoo, Tufts University "I dove into this book in hopes of better understanding other white people's beliefs about racism and sexism-which I got with detail that exceeded my expectations. What I didn't expect was to get such useful insight into my own thought patterns and easy-to-use advice to increase my skills in thinking through complex social issues. I feel like I just got a tune up!" -Debby Irving, author of Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race "A good book to think with, oriented around a straightforward but effective frame that helps illuminate how different subsets of white Americans reason about inequality, and evaluate ambiguous social situations, in systematically different ways. The authors are candid about their own leanings out of the gate, and speak unapologetically and earnestly from that point of view, while also modeling intellectual clarity and humility. In this way, the book itself serves as a good example of the habits the conclusion encourages for others. It's a book that should be of value to social analysts and laypeople alike, across a broad spectrum of moral and political views, undergirded by cool research and with helpful facts in the footnotes as needed to adjudicate empirical disputes." -Musa al-Gharbi, Stony Brook University "The authors do a good job of capturing some of the reasons people may hold the views they do about race and sex. They also capture the experiences of people that explain how they shaped their views."-Matt Lamb, The College Fix