''Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States'' is a book about
color-blind racism
Color blindness is a term that has been used by justices of the United States Supreme Court in several opinions relating to racial equality and social equity, particularly in public education.Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle Scho ...
in the United States by
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (born February 6, 1962) is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at Duke University. He was the 2018 president of the American Sociological Association.
Early influences
Bonilla-Silva was educated in Puert ...
, a sociology professor at
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
. It was originally published by
Rowman & Littlefield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing compa ...
in 2003, and has since been re-published four times, most recently in June 2017. The fourth edition was published soon after
Barack Obama's election, and includes a new chapter on what Bonilla-Silva calls "the new racism". It was reviewed favorably in ''
Science & Society
''Science & Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of Marxist scholarship. It covers economics, philosophy of science, historiography, women's studies, literature, the arts, and other social sci ...
'', ''
Urban Education
''Urban Education'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of urban education. The journal's editor-in-chief is H. Richard Milner (Vanderbilt University). It was established in 1965 and is published by SAGE Publicatio ...
'', ''
Educational Studies
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,'' and ''Multicultural Perspectives.''
References
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