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

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442202181 ISBN 13: 9781442202184

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

This edition includes a chapter examining the Obama mystery, the election of a black President even though racial progress has stagnated in the country since the 1980s. Bonilla-Silva argues that this development is not a breakthrough in race relations, but a continuation of racial trends in the last 40 years including the sedimentation of color-blind racism as the dominant ideology in the nation.

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The book challenges the students to rethink dominant paradigms on race in the U.S., but [they] respond extremely well to it. The new chapter is very engaging. -- Mary Romero, Arizona State University In the new chapter Bonilla-Silva provides a stinging critique of Obama and the very notion that the election of a black man has a positive impact on the state of racial inequality in America. This is a powerful chapter for a very powerful book. -- Hayward Derrick Horton, SUNY - Albany Praise for the previous edition: 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, UNC, Chapel Hill Praise for the previous edition: 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1442202181
• ISBN 13: 9781442202184
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 318