White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era

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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. Cover Title page Copyright page Contents Acknowledgments Ch1- Introduction: Why Are Racial Minorities Behind? Notes Ch2- What Is Racism? The Racialized Social System Framework Table 1.1 Mainstream Conceptual Framework on Racism Review of Critical Frameworks Used to Interpret Racism Limitations of Mainstream and Critical Frameworks on Racism Racialized Social System Approach to Racism Conclusion Notes Ch3- Racial Attitudes or Racial Ideology? An Alternative Paradigm for Examining Actors’ Racial Views The Racial Ideology Paradigm The Social Functions of Racial Ideology Conclusion Notes Ch4- The New Racism: The Post–Civil Rights Racial Structure in the United States The Emergence of a New Racial Structure in the 1960s Interracial Social Interaction During the New Racism Period The Political Structure of the New Racial Order “Keeping Them in Their Place”: The Social Control of Blacks Since the 1960s The Continuing Racial Economic Inequality Conclusion Notes Ch5- Color-Blind Racism: Toward an Analysis of White Racial Ideology Data Source and Analytical Methods Color-Blind Racism Table 5.1 Central Frames of Color-Blind Racism and Contemporary Alternative Racial Ideologies Table 5.2 Deployment of Color-Blind Frames by White Respondents Conclusion Notes Ch6- Color-Blind Racism and Blacks Table 6.1 Deployment of Color-Blind Frames by Black Respondents Frames of Color-Blind Racism and Blacks The Style of Color-Blind Racism and Blacks Color-Blind Storylines and Blacks Conclusion Notes Ch7- Conclusion: New Racism, New Theory, and New Struggle Responses to Skeptics What Can Be Done? Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Book Untitled