Colorblind Racism

Informationen zum Autor Meghan Burke  is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois Wesleyan University. Klappentext How can colorblindness - the idea that race does not matter - be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind racism: how dismissing or downplaying the realities of race and racism can perpetuate inequality and violence.Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and real-life examples, Meghan Burke reveals colorblind racism to be an insidious presence in many areas of institutional and everyday life in the United States. She explains what is meant by colorblind racism, uncovers its role in the history of racial discrimination, and explores its effects on how we talk about and treat race today. The book also engages with recent critiques of colorblind racism to show the limitations of this framework and how a deeper, more careful study of colorblindness is needed to understand the persistence of racism and how it may be challenged.This accessible book will be an invaluable overview of a key phenomenon for students across the social sciences, and its far-reaching insights will appeal to all interested in the social life of race and racism. Zusammenfassung How can colorblindness - the idea that race does not matter - be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind racism: how dismissing or downplaying the realities of race and racism can perpetuate inequality and violence.Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and real-life examples! Meghan Burke reveals colorblind racism to be an insidious presence in many areas of institutional and everyday life in the United States. She explains what is meant by colorblind racism! uncovers its role in the history of racial discrimination! and explores its effects on how we talk about and treat race today. The book also engages with recent critiques of colorblind racism to show the limitations of this framework and how a deeper! more careful study of colorblindness is needed to understand the persistence of racism and how it may be challenged.This accessible book will be an invaluable overview of a key phenomenon for students across the social sciences! and its far-reaching insights will appeal to all interested in the social life of race and racism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction Definition and Core Features Early Studies of the "New" Racism Bonilla-Silva's "Racism Without Racists" Methods of Study The Rise and Fall of "Post-racial" Politics: Race and Contemporary Politics The Urgency of New Frontiers Chapter 2: Colorblindness in Historical Context The Evolution of US Racism Study of Racism in the Social Sciences Colorblindness and Growing Racial Inequality Chapter 3: Colorblindness in Divergent Contexts Colorblindness in Institutions Colorblindness in Law and Policy Colorblindness in Culture Taking Stock of What We Know Chapter 4: Contested Colorblindness Variations Around and Across the Color Line Variations in Social Contexts Backstage Racism, Racial Codes, and Overt Expressions New Questions about the New Racism Chapter 5: New Directions Colorblind Variations, Identities, and Continuums The White Elephant in the Room Challenging Contemporary Racism ...

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
 
Definition and Core Features
 
Early Studies of the "New" Racism
 
Bonilla-Silva's "Racism Without Racists"
 
Methods of Study
 
The Rise and Fall of "Post-racial" Politics: Race and Contemporary Politics
 
The Urgency of New Frontiers
 
Chapter 2: Colorblindness in Historical Context
 
The Evolution of US Racism
 
Study of Racism in the Social Sciences
 
Colorblindness and Growing Racial Inequality
 
Chapter 3: Colorblindness in Divergent Contexts
 
Colorblindness in Institutions
 
Colorblindness in Law and Policy
 
Colorblindness in Culture
 
Taking Stock of What We Know
 
Chapter 4: Contested Colorblindness
 
Variations Around and Across the Color Line
 
Variations in Social Contexts
 
Backstage Racism, Racial Codes, and Overt Expressions
 
New Questions about the New Racism
 
Chapter 5: New Directions
 
Colorblind Variations, Identities, and Continuums
 
The White Elephant in the Room
 
Challenging Contemporary Racism

Report

"Meghan Burke's Colorblind Racism is perfectly timed for our national post-post-racial moment. Burke provides an exceptionally clear synopsis of how the ideology of colorblind racism supports racial inequality in the United States. In doing so, she convincingly argues that we must adjust our understandings of racial ideologies as they - and the societies in which they work - adapt and change. With Colorblind Racism, Burke presents us with an updated toolkit to understand and effectively confront racism today."
Kathleen Odell Korgen, William Paterson University
 
"Of all the critiques of colorblindness that have emerged in recent years, the notion of colorblind racism has been among the most powerful, sophisticated, and sociological. Burke's book takes us on a tour of its origins, its most distinctive components and contributions, and the new research and thinking it is producing. If you study racism in this supposed "post-racial" era, you will probably want and need to get this book."
Douglas Hartmann, University of Minnesota

Product details

• Authors: M Burke, Meghan Burke, Meghan A. Burke
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781509524426
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-2442-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Demographie, Kulturwissenschaften, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Population & demography, Rassen- u. Ethnienforschung, Race & Ethnicity Studies, Populationsforschung u. Demographie