Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

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Many Americans believe racism has all but disappeared, but coloured people lag behind whites in almost all social indicators. This book challenges our racial common sense, showing that new, more subtle forms of discrimination have emerged that help preserve white privilege.

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Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Many Americans believe racism has all but disappeared yet people of colour 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 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 "colour-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. The book 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, it demonstrates why equality of results, reparations and the end of all structures of racial discrimination are vital to America's future.
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ISBN 13 9780742516335
ISBN 10 0742516334
Title Racism without Racists
Author Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Year published 2003-05-16
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.