“I Did Not Get that Job Because of a Black Man...”: The Story Lines and Testimonies of Color-Blind Racism (original) (raw)

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In this paper we discuss the dominant racial stories that accompany color-blind racism, the dominant post–civil rights racial ideology, and asses their ideological role. Using interview data from the 1997 Survey of College Students Social Attitudes and the 1998 Detroit Area Study, we document the prevalence of four story lines and two types of testimonies among whites. We also provide data on ideological dissidence among some whites (we label them racial progressives) and blacks. We show that although these stories, and the racial ideology they reinforce, have become dominant, neither goes uncontested.

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  1. Department of Sociology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas
    Eduardo Bonilla-Silva & David G. Embrick
  2. Departments of Sociology and African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    Amanda Lewis

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Bonilla-Silva, E., Lewis, A. & Embrick, D.G. “I Did Not Get that Job Because of a Black Man...”: The Story Lines and Testimonies of Color-Blind Racism.Sociol Forum 19, 555–581 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11206-004-0696-3

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