The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, "Post-Racial" America

被引:317
作者
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo [1 ]
机构
[1] Duke Univ, Dept Sociol, Durham, NC 27708 USA
关键词
structure; color-blind racism; post-racial; DISCRIMINATION; EMPLOYMENT;
D O I
10.1177/0002764215586826
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
In this article, I describe the racial order of America in the post-Civil Rights era. First, I discuss what racism is all about and emphasize the centrality of conceiving the phenomenon in a structural way. Second, I argue that the new racism, or the set of mostly subtle, institutional, and seemingly nonracial mechanisms and practices that comprise the racial regime of post-racial America, has all but replaced the old Jim Crow order. Third, I describe the racial ideology of color-blind racism and its component parts (i.e., frames, style, and racial stories) and contend that, like the racial order, this new ideology is slippery and has a beyond race character. Fourth, I explain that the Obama moment is part of the new racism, color-blind period and justify my claim empirically. I conclude this essay pondering if people of color will wake up and realize that the new, more civil way of maintaining and justifying racial things is a more formidable way of maintaining racial domination.
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页码:1358 / 1376
页数:19
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