Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

✍ Scribed by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 380
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva s acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for and ultimately justify racial inequalities. This provocative book explodes the belief that America is now a color-blind society. The fourth edition adds a chapter on what Bonilla-Silva calls "the new racism," which provides the essential foundation to explore issues of race and ethnicity in more depth. This edition also updates Bonilla-Silva s assessment of race in America after President Barack Obama s re-election. Obama s presidency, Bonilla-Silva argues, does not represent a sea change in race relations, but rather embodies disturbing racial trends of the past. In this fourth edition, Racism without Racists will continue to challenge readers and stimulate discussion about the state of race in America today.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Preface to the Fourth Edition......Page 14
1. The Strange Enigma of Race in Contemporary America......Page 18
2. The New Racism: The U.S. Racial Structure Since the 1960s......Page 42
3. The Central Frames of Color-Blind Racism......Page 90
4. The Style of Color Blindness: How to Talk Nasty about Minorities without Sounding Racist......Page 118
5. "I Didn't Get That Job Because of a Black Man": Color-Blind Racism’s Racial Stories......Page 140
6. Peeking Inside the (White) House of Color Blindness: The Significance of Whites' Segregation......Page 168
7. Are All Whites Refined Archie Bunkers? An Examination of White Racial Progressives......Page 196
8. Are Blacks Color Blind, Too?......Page 216
9. E Pluribus Unum, or the Same Old Perfume in a New Bottle? On the Future of Racial Stratification in the United States......Page 242
10. Race Matters in Obamerica: The Sweet (but Deadly) Enchantment of Color Blindness in Black Face......Page 272
11. "The (Color-Blind) Emperor Has No Clothes": Exposing the Whiteness of Color Blindness......Page 318
Selected Bibliography......Page 334
Index......Page 364
About the Author......Page 380