Whitewashing race : the myth of a color-blind society / Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, David Wellman.
Whitewashing race : the myth of a color-blind society / Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, David Wellman.
Introduction: Race preferences and race privileges 1. Of fish and water: perspectives on racism and privilege 2. The bankruptcy of virtuous markets: racial inequality, poverty, and "individual failure" 3. Keeping Blacks in their place: race, education, and testing 4. Been in the pen so long: race, crime, and justice 5. Civil rights and racial equality: employment discrimination law, affirmative action, and quotas 6. Color-blindness as color consciousness: voting rights and political equality Conclusion: facing up to race Afterword to the 2023 edition.
Summary
In an updated new edition of this classic work, a team of highly respected sociologists, political scientists, economists, criminologists, and legal scholars scrutinize the resilience of racial inequality in twenty-first-century America.
Note
"With a new afterword" -- cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-368) and index.
