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Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society
Whitewashing Race The Myth of a ColorBlind Society
Author: Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie Shultz
White Americans, abetted by neo-conservative writers of all hues, generally believe that racial discrimination is a thing of the past and that any racial inequalities that undeniably persist--in wages, family income, access to housing or health care--can be attributed to African Americans' cultural and individual failures. If the experience of m...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520237063
ISBN-10: 0520237064
Publication Date: 9/18/2003
Pages: 360
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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a wonderful introductory anthology to structural racism and understanding why racial disparities persist to such a large degree in US society despite the rhetoric of color-blindness, moving beyond race, a post civil-rights era, etc.


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