Dilemmas of Allyship av Zachary Sunderman

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<P>"White allyship" is at the forefront of reignited, extended, and intensified debates about the future of racial progress. But as scholars and activists have long recognized, it comes with a set of personally destabilizing challenges that are at least as likely to turn whites away from anti-racism as they are to inspire them to participate in social change. <I></P><P>Dilemmas of Allyship </I>investigates the contemporary phenomenon of social justice allyship from a novel perspective. Departing from evaluative analyses, in which only "success" or "failure" can be seen, Zachary Sunderman argues that today¿s movement is best understood as a set of socially mediated dilemmas, involving contradictions between mutually exclusive sets of motivations and interests. Based on interviews with American activists, <I>Dilemmas </I>uncovers how allies experience, understand, and manage these difficulties, and explores the ways in which they can both threaten <I>and </I>strengthen the project of whi