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

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo

 
9781588260321: White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-civil Rights Era

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

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9781588260048: White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-civil Rights Era

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ISBN 10:  1588260046 ISBN 13:  9781588260048
Publisher: Lynne Rienner, 2001
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