“new racism.” eduardo bonilla-silva read - "nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in...
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“New Racism.”
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Read - "Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America"
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How is race socially constructed?
• A woman named Susie Phipps unsuccessfully sued to have her racial classification changed from black to white.
– Phipps had both black and white ancestry• A 1970 Louisiana law stated that
someone with 1/32 “Negro blood” is black
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Race
• Creation of culture that reflects social distinctions and power.
• Bonilla-Silva investigates the current racial relationships and racial inequality in the US
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Whiteness
• An identity• Embodied racial power• Visible uniform of the dominant racial group• White, Not Yet White, Not White but
“colored”
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Post-Civil Rights Racism
• 1. increasingly covert nature of racial discourse and practices
• 2. avoidance of racial terminology and “reverse racism”
• 3. invisibility of most mechanisms to reproduce racial inequality
• 4. Safe minorities to signify the nonracialism of the polity (Colin Powell)
• 5. rearticulation of some racial practices characteristic of Jim Crow
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Covert Acts
• Shown fewer apartments; higher rents• VP of trade assoc. kept in charge of “Minority
Affairs.”• Law partner as “black litigator.”• Restaurants: Stared at; seated in poor spot,
poor service; mistaken as employees• Not hired; Denied promotions; harassment by
police• Retail: surveillance, poor service, etc
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Racism & Socio-Economic Status
• If poor, probably live in an ethnic neighborhood, therefore, they don’t experience a lot of racism.
• If middle class, then they experience much more racism.
• If upper class, they are the “model” minority and racism is more covert.
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What about Affirmative Action?
• Affirmative Action is the practice of giving minorities and women preference in hiring and admission to college – especially in spheres that lack minorities and women.
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Abstract Liberalism
• “I’m all for equal opportunity, that’s why I oppose Affirmative Action.”
• This ignores the effects of past and contemporary discrimination on the social, economic, and educational status of minorities.
• This, then, safeguards white privilege.
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Naturalization
• Limited contact between Whites and minorities.
• People tend to group with others like themselves. . . “birds of a feather, flock together” as my mom used to say.
• It’s “natural”; everyone does it.• White neighborhoods followed by white
schools and churches followed by racial isolation.
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• Population Change – Researchers predict that by 2050, whites will be a minority in the U.S.
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Latin-Americanization of Whiteness
• White supremacy will become more salient. The “White” population will become the numerical minority, therefore, the US will develop a triracial system with “whites” at the top; an intermediary group of “honorary whites” and a nonwhite group or the “collective black” at the bottom.
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“Whites”
• Whites• New whites (Russian, Albanian, etc)• Assimilated light-skinned Latinos• Some multiracials• Assimilated (urban) Native Americans• A few Asian-origin people
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“Honorary Whites”
• Light-skinned Latinos• Japanese Americans• Korean Americans• Asian Indians• Chinese Americans• Middle Eastern Americans• Most multi-racials
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Collective Black
• Filipinos• Vietnamese• Hmong• Laotians• Dark-skinned Latinos• Blacks• New West Indian and African immigrants• Reservation-bound Native Americans
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21st Century
• Make visible what remains invisible (ie housing; banks, retail, jobs, etc)
• Prime Time, 20/20• Equality of results• New civil rights movement