White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-civil Rights Era

Author: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Is a racial structure still in place in the USA? This analysis answers that question with an unequivocal ""yes"", describing a contemporary system that operates in a covert, subtle, institutional and superficially non-racial way. It labels the post-civil rights ideology as colour-blind racism.

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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.

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“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”