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Racism without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

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It’s also no longer culturally acceptable to be openly racist in the United States, says Bonilla-Silva, author of “Racism Without Racists.”

Given that, as I have claimed, there are good grounds for identifying people’s real attitudes with their explicit attitudes, why does it matter what their implicit attitudes are? Here’s why – having an attitude activated affects our further thinking processes, and that can result in biased thought and behaviour. Even though some exploitative practices may be in the past, the legacy of their unjust structures remains, and carries through into decision-making about climate change today, he says. "Ultimately our economic system has at its core this notion that in the pursuit of capital accumulation and profit, some people can be sacrificed, and that has overwhelmingly been people in the Global South," he says. "So we have to understand the connection between slavery, colonialism and racialised capitalism, which creates the conditions for the climate crisis." Racial biases can in some ways be more destructive than overt racism because they’re harder to spot, and therefore harder to combat,” he says. But those disparities are invisible to many whites, who often see themselves as victims of discrimination, writes Jamelle Bouie of Slate magazine in a recent essay, “The Gulf That Divides Us.”

Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Sixth Edition

Bush, Rod (July 2006). "Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States". Science & Society. 70 (3): 431–434. doi: 10.1521/siso.70.3.431. When some whites talk about racism, they think it’s only personal – what one person says or does to another. But many minorities and people who study race say racism can be impersonal, calculating, devoid of malice – such as Michael Corleone’s approach to power. I don’t know how common overt racism of the kind captured on the video is today. Questions like that are notoriously difficult to answer, in part because people are often reluctant to express their true attitudes when they know that many others disapprove of them. One of the most provocative and effective books for helping students understand contemporary racial theory and how it connects with their lives

There's a very interesting chapter on Obama's presidency and how he was much more centre or centre-right than his public image would lead people to believe. Whether this was a strategic choice to get votes or part of his own socialization, it ended in people voting for an abstract liberalism that looked and sounded good on the surface, but which didn't live up to its potential and was ultimately disappointing for people of colour on a policy level. (I'd still take it over Trump and the current political climate in a heartbeat, though)

Psychologists have demonstrated time and again that unconscious processes handle the bulk of execution of our movements and a great deal of the actual reasoning processes themselves. Things we are not conscious of seeing – which we can’t report, for instance – influence our subsequent behaviour, by altering how we process information and what comes to mind.

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