Race Without Racism Summary

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The book I read was called, “Race without Racism,” by Eduardo Bonilla­Silva. Dr. Bonilla Silva gives us a looked into his research and a peak into certain individual views on how they talk about or avoid talking about race issues. A lot of people refuse to talk about race and therefore we live in a very color blind society and that's not a good thing. People of color and whites see racial matters very differently. To explain this idea behind color blind racism he uses interview data to explain these types of concepts and the reason why he uses them is because he wanted to examine whites racial ideology. Throughout the entire book, Dr. Eduardo Bonilla­Silva is conveying that color blind racism is common in people of the white race, which is…show more content…
The people he interviewed pretty much said the same thing about affirmative action and how they don’t believe minorities should get “special treatment,” and it should be based off their merit just like them. When we had a guest lecturer named, George Greenidge and he was talking about affirmative action and it was based on merit and not talented. We also watched a snippet of the documentary, called American Promise and they were labeling the black kids of having an issue in math or having “ADHD” and that wasn't the case at all. The teachers made it seem that they weren't the problem and both of the boys needed to work harder to do good in math.Naturalization is when whites say that nature occurrences happen due to a racial phenomenon, for example segregation. Cultural Racism is when you criticize a minority group based off of a cultural, such as mexicans don’t think having an education is important. People will always try to tie you within the stereotypes and when you deviate from those “roles” it's sort of a…show more content…
A lot of patterns that I have notice has been very negative thinking about blacks, but the people who are being interview always says something in reverse or sugar coat to make it seem not as bad. This brings me back to our class discussion when we were talking about the “front stage” and “backstage” and how in the front stage whites don’t really say how they feel about a situation, but in the backstage they have no filter and just say whatever comes to their mind without second guessing it. What I got from the book is that most whites don’t know they are racist and not all of them are. The ones who are, don’t really know they are being racist and hiding behind the four frames. In order to do this, Dr.Eduardo Bonilla­Silva suggests some solutions to help fight color blind racism. One of my critiques was that some of these solutions are a little far fetch to the reality of things going on today. For example, when he says “nurture a large cohort of antiracist whites to begin challenging color­blind nonsense from within”(Bonilla­Silva,2006:213), not a lot of people will try to reverse how they think and actually comes to terms with the truth of
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