Whitewashing Race
Subtitle: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 18, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780520237063
Subjects: Racism & racial discrimination; United States; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Civil rights; Racism; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Sociology; USA; Discrimination & Racism; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Race relations; Anthropology - General; African Americans
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."