Racism with Antiracists: Color-Conscious Racism and the Unintentional Persistence of Inequality

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2007-01-01Author
Hughey, Matthew W.
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Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
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The latest turn in the sociological study of white racism argues that the paradigm of color-blind racism is the predominant form by which many whites unintentionally reproduce racist ideology due to ignorance, or dismissal, of structural racism. As a remedy, many scholars advocate that whites should turn to explicitly antiracist activism informed by structural analysis. Employing ethnographic data in a majority white antiracist organization as a touchstone for analysis, I problematize this arrangement by examining how racism is socially reproduced despite members good intentions, knowledge of structural racism, and explicitly color-conscious ideology. Using in-depth interviews, fieldnotes, and content analysis of organizational publications, I find several mechanisms at work which, unlike the dominant color-blind approach, explains the persistence of an antiracist racism.
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Social Thought and Research, Volume 28 (2007), pp. 67-108 http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5218
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