White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era

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.

• Author
• Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 223

• Publisher
• Lynne Rienner Publishers

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781588260321

• Genres
• race, sociology, history

• Release date
• 2001