Whitewashing race
Subtitle: the myth of a color-blind society
By: Michael K. Brown ... [et al.].
Contributors: Brown, Michael K.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Racism -- United States; African Americans -- Civil rights; United States -- Race relations
Other titles: Center for Educational Pluralism Collection.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-324) and index.

Available at the Center for Educational Pluralism, located in Miller Hall 250.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction :; title: Race preferences and race privileges -- -- 1.; title: Of fish and water : perspectives on racism and privilege -- -- 2. The; title: bankruptcy of virtuous markets : racial inequality, poverty, and "individual failure" -- -- 3.; title: Keeping Blacks in their place : race, education, and testing -- -- 4.; title: Been in the pen so long : race, crime, and justice -- -- 5.; title: Civil rights and racial equality : employment discrimination law, affirmative action, and quotas -- -- 6.; title: Color-blindness as color consciousness : voting rights and political equality -- -- Conclusion:; title: Facing up to race ---- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the authors -- Index.