Title: Breaking the Deadly Dance of Racism: Perpetrators, Targets, Allies, and Bystanders
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2026
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1394310900
ISBN 13: 9781394310906
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Break the silence and inaction that perpetuate racism in everyday life

When racist incidents occur, they're too often met with silence – perpetrators remain unaware, targets feel powerless, bystanders freeze, and allies hesitate. Breaking the Deadly Dance of Racism provides a comprehensive framework for understanding how these four roles maintain racism and offers concrete intervention strategies. Drawing on decades of research, psychologists Derald W. Sue and Lisa B. Spanierman reveal the hidden scripts keeping racism thriving.

The book examines unique barriers each role faces – from perpetrators' defensive reactions to targets' racial trauma to bystanders' diffusion of responsibility to allies' performative gestures. Readers discover how cultural scripts like color-blind ideology protect racism from challenge, and learn detailed microintervention strategies for making racism visible, disarming biased behavior, educating offenders, and mobilizing support.

The book also offers:

Evidence-based guidance for developing critical consciousness about how racism operates at individual, institutional, and cultural levels
Concrete strategies for overcoming the fear, uncertainty, and social costs that prevent people from taking anti-racist action
Detailed intervention tactics tailored to the specific challenges faced by perpetrators, targets, bystanders, and allies
Practical approaches for combating both everyday microaggressions and systemic macroaggressions in organizations and society
Foundational practices for racial socialization that help parents and educators raise antiracist children through microprotections

Essential reading for educators, mental health practitioners, diversity consultants, and activists, Breaking the Deadly Dance of Racism transforms abstract commitments into actionable strategies. By revealing how silence makes us complicit and providing specific intervention tools, this book empowers readers to break the deadly dance.

About the Author

DERALD WING SUE, PHD, Professor of Psychology and Education in the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University.

LISA BETH SPANIERMAN, PHD, Professor in the School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University.

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