Racism Without Racists

By E. Bonilla-Silva. 2003

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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for—and ultimately justify—racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative book makes clear that color blind racism is as insidious now as ever. It features new material on our current racial climate, including the Black Lives Matter movement; a significantly revised chapter that examines the Obama presidency, the 2016 election, and Trump’s presidency; and a new chapter addressing what readers can do to confront racism—both personally and on a larger structural level.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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On formalizing fairness in prediction with machine learning (2017, neutral): “eatment parity can be considered a naive way to achieve egalitarianism. In practice, treatmentparitycorrespondschie…ytotheapproachofbeing“blind” to counter racial/gender discrimination. Bonilla-Silva [8] submit that discrimination is still possible against the protected group because of the structur”
Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Family Structure and Children's Education (2019, background): “In the United States, race and ethnicity are fundamental axes of inequality along which socioeconomic resources are distributed (Bobo, Kluegel, & Smith, 1997; Bonilla-Silva, 2006; Conley, 2009).”
Researching Race Within Educational Psychology Contexts (2014, background): “Specifically, the myth of meritocracy helps to serve as justification of racial discrimination and class hierarchies (Bonilla-Silva, 2009; Peller, 1990).”
‘When saying you care is not really caring’: emotions of disgust, whiteness ideology, and teacher education (2014, background): “According to Bonilla-Silva (2010), this is just another way of ‘calling Blacks “nigger” softly’ because it assumes much about the US affirmative action policies that are viewed by US whites as preferential treatment to people of color (p. 54).”
Color Blind or Color Conscious? White American Mothers’ Approaches to Racial Socialization (2018, background): “…job applicants with ethnic sounding names are less likely to get called back for job interviews compared with those with “White” sounding names (Bertrand & Mullainathan, 2004), and ethnic minorities do not have access to the same housing and education opportunities as Whites (Bonilla-Silva, 2014a).”
How Peer Norms of Inclusion and Exclusion Predict Children's Interest in Cross‐Ethnic Friendships (2014, background): “some degree, to minimize the possibility that they might be perceived as prejudiced (Bonilla-Silva, 2006; Devine & Vasquez, 1998).”
Discrimination in the Credential Society: An Audit Study of Race and College Selectivity in the Labor Market (2015, neutral): “Individuals may present a public facade about non-whites that hides their true opinions (Bonilla-Silva 2010).”
White families and race: colour-blind and colour-conscious approaches to white racial socialization (2014, background): “Because whites occupy dominant positions within social institutions and because racial ideologies ‘justify or challenge the racial status quo’ (Bonilla-Silva 2006, 11–12), understanding how young whites develop racial common sense is important in terms of transforming or cultivating these ideas in…”
Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review (2018, background): “Structural racism, involving “the totality of the social relations and practices that reinforce white privilege” (Bonilla-Silva, 2013, p. 9), contributes to increased vulnerability among U.S. nonwhite populations.”