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

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0742546853 ISBN 13: 9780742546851

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006

Synopsis

In this book, Bonilla-Silva explores with systematic interview data, the nature and components of post-civil rights racial ideology. Specifically, he documents the existence of a new suave and apparently non-racial racial ideology he labels color-blind racism. He suggests that this ideology, anchored on the decontextualized, a historical, and abstract extension of liberalism to racial matters, has become the organizational matrix, whites use to explain and account for racial matters in America.

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Review:

Quick, fast-paced, and critical, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's insightful analysis provides an important critique of those who want to shift explanations of racial disparities from racism to cultural deficiencies.--Lee D. Baker, Duke University Every white American should have the privilege to have that eureka moment: Ah! Now I understand what being white means, in the most profound sense. The entire world looks different from then on. Racism without Racists leads white Americans to that very moment of discovery.--Judith Blau, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

About the Author:

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is research professor of sociology at Duke University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0742546853
• ISBN 13: 9780742546851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288