While reading the book Racism without Racists it’s easy to see how it could be an eye opening experience for some. The author, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva says that there are four main frames to color blind racism in the
After discussing this in depth in previous the chapters Eduardo discusses in chapter 7, “Are Blacks Color Blind, Too?” What chapter seven does is look at the same four frames of colorblind racism; the only difference is he wants to show if or how black people use these to be prejudice. The information in the study was found by using the 1998 DAS survey. According to the author the results were relatively unsurprising. Most black people do not use the colorblind racist frames as often as white people. Out of the four frames all were used less than half the time and the only one over 25% was the abstract liberalism concept. Silva says “For example, the frame of abstract liberalism has shaped the way many blacks explain school and residential segregation.”
Throughout the chapter many personal interviews and real life examples are brought up to illustrate how blacks are affected not only directly but indirectly as well, through things such as the free market system and laissez faire racism colorblind racism persists. If you look at this concept closely it is the reason why blacks don’t completely abolish the ideology of colorblind racism. Something that was surprising when reading was that many times black people were just as likely to believe the racially defined stereotypes. All in all the chapter reflects that “blacks, for the most part, do not subscribe wholeheartedly to the frames of color blindness.” Also this chapter does a good job of showing that blacks are more straightforward and have more concrete answers when being asked racial questions. This chapter was by far one of the most interesting in the book because it gave me an idea of what it is like to experience these thing from a black person’s point of view.
