Dilemmas of Allyship by Zachary Sunderman - 9781032431994

Dilemmas of AllyshipWhite Anti-Racists and the Challenges of Social Justice\nAuthor(s): Zachary Sunderman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032431994, 978-1032431994\nSynopsis\nDilemmas of Allyship investigates the political phenomenon of social justice allyshipin the form of white anti-racismfrom a novel perspective. The book argues that 21st-century allyship is best understood as a set of socially mediated personal problems and challenges, and that these problems and challenges furnish the material with which many allies identities are formed. Through an analysis of in-depth interviews with white American anti-racist activists, Dilemmas of Allyship provides a picture of the ambivalent struggles with which allies grapple, tracing the theoretically irreducible contradictions they regularly encounter. These contradictions, or dilemmas, are central to the ongoing project of many white activists allyship, presenting.