Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0742516334
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Many Americans believe racism has all but disappeared, and that we live in a truly colorblind society. Yet people of color lag behind whites in almost all social indicators. They are poorer, less educated, and have less access to health care. If race has become largely irrelevant—and racists are few and far between—how can these conditions persist? This new book challenges our racial common sense, showing that new, more subtle forms of discrimination have emerged that help preserve white privilege. This 'new racism' has produced a powerful ideology of 'color- blind racism' that justifies contemporary inequities. The voices of whites and African Americans heard in this book expose how white America manufactures nonracial accounts of persistent realities like residential and school segregation. Bonilla-Silva calls for a new civil rights movement anchored in the working-class, which is made up increasingly of female and minority members. While acknowledging the obstacles this movement will face, he demonstrates why equality of results, reparations, and the end of all structures of racial discrimination are vital to America's future. Feature points: —A powerful counterpoint to the writings of widely-read authors such as D'Souza, W. J. Wilson, and Steele. —Shows how racism has been transformed into new forms. —Contrasts the experiences of whites and minority Americans —Describes how cognitive, cultural and aesthetic factors shape racial constructions and experiences.
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Ago.72 Accordingly, it is harder for social scientists today to defend sociologist Max Weber’s call for a separation between researcher, method, and data.73 My scholarly goals in this book are to describe the main components of color-blind racism and explain their functions and to use these components to theorize how future U.S. race relations might look (see chapter 9 for a more detailed analysis on this). I hope this effort helps social analysts to get over the present impasse on the nature and.
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Think it’s as bad as it was. It probably needs improvement. What [society] needs is a knowledgeable crew and I think that is the truth there. I think that the work will have to be done up continually until we’re all one big happy family. [Interviewer: Do you foresee that happening?] It wouldn’t surprise me. My great granddaughter might marry a black, I don’t know. I have no idea! The next case is an example of respondents who denied discrimination outright. It is worth pointing out that all the.
Nickel! I think that’s ridiculous. I think that’s a great way to go for the black vote. But I think that’s a ridiculous assumption because those that say we should pay them because they were slaves back in the past and yet, how often do you hear about the people who were whites that were slaves and ah, the whites that were ah? Boy, we should get reparations, the Irish should get reparations from the English. . . . But what is ideological about this story? Is it not true that ‘‘the past is the.
Of interracial marriage and had an interracial lifestyle.38 Kay, a student at MU, answered the interracial question in the following manner: ‘‘I don’t see anything wrong with it [laughs].’’ Kay laughed because before this question was posed to her she had said that her boyfriend was black (she was the only white dating or married to a black among the 107 whites interviewed in these two projects). Franci, a homemaker in her twenties, answered the question similarly: ‘‘As long as they’re happy, go.