Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind SocietyIn an updated new edition of this classic work, a team of highly respected sociologists, political scientists, economists, criminologists, and legal scholars scrutinize the resilience of racial inequality in twenty-first-century America. Whitewashing Race argues that contemporary racism manifests as discrimination in nearly every realm of American life, and is further perpetuated by failures to address the compounding effects of generations of disinvestment. Police violence, mass incarceration of Black people, employment and housing discrimination, economic deprivation, and gross inequities in health care combine to deeply embed racial inequality in American society and economy. Updated to include the most recent evidence, including contemporary research on the racially disparate effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, this edition of Whitewashing Race analyzes the consequential and ongoing legacy of "disaccumulation" for Black communities and lives. While some progress has been made, the authors argue that real racial justice can be achieved only if we actively attack and undo pervasive structural racism and its legacies. |
Contents
Race Preferences and Race Privileges | 1 |
Perspectives on Racism and Privilege | 34 |
Racial Inequality | 66 |
Race education and Testing | 104 |
Race Crime and Justice | 132 |
employment Discrimination Law | 161 |
Voting Rights | 193 |
Facing Up to Race | 223 |
Afterword to the 2023 edition | 253 |
Notes | 291 |
Bibliography | 345 |
About the Authors | 369 |
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