The author gives an overview, a brief intro of what the entire book is going to be about. He says whites denounce blacks “for demanding the maintenance of unnecessary and divisive race-based programs, such as affirmative action. His argument is blacks and dark-skinned minorities lad well behind in almost every area of social life. Society is set up where minorities don’t succeed, from education to housing, “minorities are at the bottom of the well”.
Color-blind racism is a kind of racism that says, “These people are human too”. The fact a certain race is behind is because they do not work hard enough. Today it serves as the ideological armour for a covert and institutionalized system toward minorities. Whites can express resentment toward minorities, critize their morals, and what they believe in, work ethic, then claim “reverse racism”.
Whites and people of color cannot agree on racial matters because they look at race differently. For people of color think of racism as a system or institution and whites view racism as prejudice. There are three variations on scientists’ view on racism: Socially constructed academic achievement, and social categories.
The author goes on to explain the dominant race. He uses data sources and interviews to achieve his goal in describing the main components of color blind racism and explain their functions.
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