Whitewashing Race
Subtitle: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780520244757
Subjects: Racism & racial discrimination; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; History; History: American; The Americas; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Social Science / Sociology / General; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Anthropology - General
First sentence: At the turn of the last century, the African American leader and scholar W. E. B. Du Bois declared that the "problem of the twentieth century" was "the problem of the color line."