Cynthia McKinney, First African-American woman elected to represent Georgia in the US Congressional House of Representatives : "Denis Rancourt has turned the entire notion of RACISM on its head and at the same time exposes racist acts committed by others to deflect that characterization from sticking at the highest levels of The Academy. North American civil rights defenders need this book at this time. Rancourt’s deeply incisive Fight Against Racism brings us back to the reality of the struggle, away from the manoeuvring for class advantage and away from the victim’s desire to create illusions of state-given justice."
THE TIMES OF INDIA – DELHI : “This is a far reaching socio-bio-psychological and institutional analysis of society’s dominance hierarchies, and of the systemic use of racism to maintain and advance the power structures that define both nations and our local environments."
Jeff Schmidt, former editor of Physics Today, author of Disciplined Minds : "Rancourt's main goal isn't to get you to agree with him on the issues. Rather, his goal is to provoke you to reject the boring, worn-out framework within which the issues are debated in the mass media and academe, and think independently. His book worked for me, as I ended up thinking about important issues in new ways."
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, award-winning author and geopolitical analyst : "Sometimes I think of Rancourt as an outlander or traveler looking at society from an outside view, but then I realize that he is not detached and is actually writing in a deliberately attached way from the inside. ...... Rancourt’s essays throughout the years have also been part of his own praxis and movement as a social actor. They are not some academic production."
Anat Matar, Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University : "You don’t have to agree with Denis Rancourt’s detailed and thorough arguments in order to learn from this book. Rancourt presents us with a challenge that human rights activists should seriously consider."
Terrance Nelson, Co-Chair, American Indian Movement, former five-term Chief of Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation : "Denis Rancourt is on a journey. In 1810, there was one billion people in the world, today seven billion people, technologically superior but biologically the same, we continue to dehumanize and demonize other people on the road to new wars. Denis Rancourt is asking questions that our youth need to hear."
Author(s): Denis G. Rancourt
Edition: First
Publisher: Stairway Press
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 180
City: Apache Junction, AZ
Tags: racism, activism, hierarchy, education, biology, stress, medicine, medical errors, environmental science, global warming
Contents
Identifying Racism: Identifying Racism: Context of
Rancourt’s Critique—Introduction by Mahdi Darius
Nazemroaya .......................................................................... 4
Why an Introduction by Me? ............................................. 4
Reform versus Revolution ................................................ 8
Pushing the Limits of the Academy .................................... 10
What Is Racism? ........................................................... 14
Different Perspectives for Analyzing Racism ......................... 18
Anti-Racism and Critical Race Theory ................................ 23
Orwellian Semantics: Tolerance as Intolerance ...................... 26
Opposing the Cultural Mafia In Defence of Racism ................. 28
A Return to Radical Perspectives ....................................... 31
Author’s Introduction and Overview ................................ 35
Need For and Practice Of Student Liberation .................... 60
Student Liberation ........................................................ 61
Human Biology is Such that People Make and Inhabit
Dominance Hierarchies ...................................................... 68
Institutions Naturally Evolve Toward More Control ......... 73
Institutions Build Hierarchy Between Politico-Cultural ReNormalizations ............................................................. 74
Individual Freedom versus Collective Oppression as the
Determinative Conflict in a Hierarchical Society .................... 77
Gradual Change Is Not Progress ........................................ 79
The Individual Must be Continuously Disoriented ........... 83
Roundabout as Conflict-Avoidance versus Malcolm X’s Psychology
of Liberation ............................................................... 85
Hierarchy and Free Expression in the Fight Against Racism
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Pacifism as Pathology .................................................. 85
Example of Roundabout: Education and Progressive Legislation
............................................................................ 86
Example of Roundabout: Organizing and Politics ............... 88
Example of Roundabout: Deferring Societal Agency ............ 88
Malcolm X on Liberation Psychology .............................. 90
On the Smoke Screen of Public Health Lobbying ................... 93
Medical Error ........................................................... 94
Anarchy as the Only Healthy Lifestyle ............................. 95
Public Health Cover Up .............................................. 96
It Makes You Stupid ................................................... 98
Is Establishment Medicine an Injurious Scam? ....................... 99
Hierarchy, the Hidden Predominant Health Factor ........... 100
Medical Research—Bad Science .................................. 102
Medical Practice—Death Machine ............................... 105
Medical Predators .................................................... 107
Some Big Lies of Money, Medicine, and Environmental Science
.............................................................................. 108
The Money Lie ....................................................... 108
The Medicine is Health Lie ......................................... 110
Environmental Science Lies........................................ 112
Freon and Ozone ..................................................... 112
Acid Rain on the Boreal Forest .................................... 114
Global Warming as a Threat to Humankind .................... 115
Pure Madness ......................................................... 117
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Beyond Disoriented, the Individual Must Be Incapacitated
.......................................................................................... 120
Anti-Racism as an Instrument of Hierarchical Power ..... 124
Critical Race Theory, in the Service of Whitey .................... 125
How Anti-Racism Protects Class Structure and Dominance
Hierarchy ................................................................. 129
Anti-Racist and Anti-Violence Proscriptions Enable Oppression
.............................................................................. 133
On the Specific Meaning of the Term “house negro” and
On Its Tactical Use ............................................................ 138
The Institutional and Hierarchical Context of Anti-Racism
.......................................................................................... 146
Free Expression, Basic Rights, and Abolitionism ............. 157
Final Thoughts .................................................................. 162
References Used ............................................................... 165
About the Author ............................................................. 174
