Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

A fourth edition is now available.

In the third edition of his highly acclaimed book, Bonilla-Silva continues to challenge color-blind thinking. He has now extended this challenge with a new chapter on Obama's election addressing the apparent miracle of a black man elected as the 44th President of the nation despite the fact that racial progress has stagnated since the 1980s and, in some areas, even regressed. In contrast to those who believe the election of President Obama is a watershed moment that signifies the beginning of a post-racial era in America, he suggests this development embodies the racial trends of the last 40 years including two he has addressed in this book: the rise of color-blind racism as the dominant racial ideology and the emergence of an apparently more flexible racial stratification system he characterizes as Latin America-like.

Some material from previous editions, including 'Answers to Questions from Concerned Readers,' 'What is to Be Done,' and an Appendix detailing interview questions, is now available on the Rowman & Littlefield website through the Teaching/Learning Resources link.

• How to Be an Antiracist
• The Supreme Court, Race, and Civil Rights: From Marshall to Rehnquist
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
• So You Want to Talk About Race
• Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (Critical Social Thought)
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner)
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race