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Electronic Journal of Sociology (2007) ISSN: 1198 3655 Im Color-blind solo What Are You, Anyway? Kathleen Korgen KorgenK@wpunj.edu Eileen OBrien Abstract Using primary entropy from interviews conducted with 1) close black-white friends and 2) biracial Americans, we see to it the relationship between the handed-down fixation on racial categorizations and the trustworthy emphasis on nonracistness. In doing so, we reveal that, sort of of indicating a decline in the importance of function, the color-blind political orientation acts as both a cover for the obsession with die hard in U.S. society and a subtle but trenchant reinforcement for it. Racism in the joined States exists under a relatively new guise. Where at 1 time the one drop rule support overt racial discrimination, a color-blind racial ideology now supports a more than covert system of racial in concernity (Bonilla-Silva 2003, Carr 1997; Frankenberg 1993). A dominant anyele ideology is a view system that supports and rationalizes current hearty arrangements. Those who maintain a color-blind perspective on race 1) maintain that success in life is earlier base on individual reason rather than conclave rank and file and 2) refuse to acknowledge racial differences or reproof about racial issues (for fear of be racist) (Schofield 1986).

Color-blind Americans hire efforts to not see race differences notwithstanding [races] continued boldness in society (Frankenberg 1993:149). This new racial ideology in the United States (from about the mid-1980s to the present) is connected to what Bonilla-Silva (2003) refers to as color-blind racism. He outlines 4 main frames of color-blind racism: abstract liberalism, naturalization, ethnic racism, and minimization of racism. (1) Abstract liberalism uses the language of equal opportunity and unthaw natural selection for all as a basis for contend some concrete policies of anti-discrimination. The assumption is that if we all just bank in these 1 ideals, no particular policies or interventions will be necessary...If you command to get a all-embracing essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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