Covert Racism: Theories, Institutions, And Experiences

Rodney D. Coates, Ph.D. (1987) in Sociology, University of Chicago, is Professor of Sociology at Miami University. He has published extensively in the areas of critical race and ethnic relations including his edited text Race and Ethnic Relations: Across Time, Space and Discipline (Brill 2004).

"A half century after the civil rights movement succeeded in putting to an end the most overt forms of racial oppression characteristic of the Jim Crow era, coming to terms with how to characterize the nature of the nation's post-civil-rights era racial formation has been an enduring focus of both academics and the public at large. This is a useful one-stop guide devoted to explaining how, to borrow from Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, “racism without racists' works. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries." —Choice

• Covert Racism – An Introduction, Rodney D. CoatesI. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COVERT RACISMThe Impact of Racial and Nonracial Structural Forces on Poor Urban Blacks, William Julius WilsonThe New Racism: The Racial Regime of Post-Civil Rights America, David Dietrich and Eduardo Bonilla-SilvaRace Versus Racism as Cause, Tukufu Zuberi Color Blind White Dominance, Ian Haney LopezWhen Good People Do Bad Things: The Nature of Contemporary Racism, John F. Dovidio and Samuel L. GaertnerCovert Racism: Theory, Types and Examples, Rodney D. CoatesII. COVERT RACISM AND INSTITUTIONSProtecting White Power in a Corporate Hierarchy, Sharon M. Collins and Georgiann DavisIf You’re White, You’re All Right: The Reproduction of Racial Hierarchies in Bollywood Film, Angie Beeman and Anjana NarayanRace, Culture, and the Pursuit of Employment, Monique Morris and Sirithon Thanasombat Challenging Our Textbooks and our Teachings: Examining the Reproduction of Racism in the Sociology Classroom, Sarah Chivers and Jolene D. SmythChallenging Racial Battle Fatigue on Historically White Campuses: A Critical Race Examination of Race-Related Stress, William A. Smith, Tara J. Yosso, Daniel G. SolórzanoCovert Racism in the U.S. and Globally, Rodney D. CoatesIII: COVERT RACISM AND THE INDIVIDUALThe Ineffable Strangeness of Race, Patricia J. WilliamsThe Social Situation of the Black Executive, Elijah AndersonNow You Don’t See It, Now You Don’t: White Lives as Covert Racism, David L. BrunsmaAren’t They All Dead? Passive Racism Against Native Americans, Claudia Fox TreeSilent Racism, Barbara TrepagnierOne Step From Suicide, Leslie Houts Picca, Joe R. Feagin, and Tracy L. JohnsLifestyles of the Rich and Racist, Corey DolgonJourney to Awareness: Recognizing the Invisibility of Race Issues, Janet MorrisonIV: EPILOGUE Epilogue: Post-Racial Myths: Disrupting Covert Racism and the Racial Matrix, Rodney D. Coates List of ContributorsIndex