Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States - Hardcover

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0742516326 ISBN 13: 9780742516328

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003

Synopsis

Racism is alive and well although it has changed its clothes. Color-blind racism combines elements of liberalism in the abstract with anti-minority views to justify contemporary racial inequality.

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Review

Color-blindness the notion that we no longer have to take race into account in our public policies because racism has been overcome is the ideology that currently sustains racial inequality in the United States. So argues Eduardo Bonilla-Silva in this powerful and incisive book. Only those whose minds and hearts are closed to the strong evidence of persistent prejudice and discrimination will fail to be convinced.--George Fredrickson, Stanford University, author of White Supremacy and Racism: A Short History An empirically rich and provocative account. Professor Bonilla-Silva has produced a study that will allow all Americans to think more deeply about how we talk about race.--Alford A. Young, Jr., University of Michigan Every generation of white Americans retools the old racist rationalizations to fit its era. With forthright directness, Bonilla-Silva exposes the current circumlocutions involving so-called 'color blindness.'--Tom Pettigrew, University of California, Santa Cruz A tour de force probing of white racial attitudes that challenges the individualistic interpretations of leading survey researchers! One of the brilliant new talents in U.S. social science, Bonilla-Silva dissects and demolishes with his data-honed scalpel the ideological framework of 'colorblind racism' that is now dominant across white America.--Joe R. Feagin, University of Florida, and author with Karyn McKinney of "The Many Costs of Racism" Racism without Racists will make many readers uncomfortable, as it should. With care and a wicked sense of humor, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva explores the kind of subtle, everyday racism that some of 'our best friends' unconsciously perpetuate.--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Racism without Racists is one of the most clearly written and astute examinations of racial discourse to be found anywhere in the literature.--Jim Sidanius, University of California, Los Angeles

About the Author

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is associate professor of sociology at Texas A&M University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742516326
• ISBN 13: 9780742516328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224