White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-civil Rights Era - Softcover

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1588260321 ISBN 13: 9781588260321

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

Is a racial structure still firmly in place in the United States? White Supremacy and Racism answers that question with an unequivocal yes, describing a contemporary system that operates in a covert, subtle, institutional, and superficially nonracial fash on. Assessing the major perspectives that social analysts have relied on to explain race and racial relations, Bonilla-Silva labels the post-civil rights ideology as color-blind racism: a system of social arrangements that maintain white privilege at all levels. His analysis of racial politics in the United States makes a compelling argument for a new civil rights movement rooted in the race-class needs of minority masses, multiracial in character - and focused on attaining substantive rather than formal equality.

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White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-civil Rights Era Bonilla-Silva (sociology, Texas A&M U.) addresses the reasons that black Americans and other racial minorities lag behind whites in terms of income, wealth, occupational and health status, educational attainment, and other social indicators. Providing a new formulation of what "racism" and "prejudice" are, Bonilla-Silva argues that white supremacy and racial ideology are the most important sociolo... Full description

Review:

Full of brilliant, fresh ideas and well-developed arguments - Hernon Vera ""Provocative, innovative, and insightful....No person interested in racial inequality, race relations, and the changing nature of racial discourse in the U.S. should fail to read this work."" - Cedric Herring

About this edition

• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1588260321
• ISBN 13: 9781588260321
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220