The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, “Post-Racial” America

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo

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The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, “Post-Racial” America

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo·2015·American Behavioral Scientist

DOI 10.1177/0002764215586826

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In this article, I describe the racial order of America in the post–Civil Rights era. First, I discuss what racism is all about and emphasize the centrality of conceiving the phenomenon in a structural way. Second, I argue that the “new racism,” or the set of mostly subtle, institutional, and seemingly nonracial mechanisms and practices that comprise the racial regime of “post-racial” America, has all but replaced the old Jim Crow order. Third, I describe the racial ideology of color-blind racism and its component parts (i.e., frames, style, and racial stories) and contend that, like the racial order, this new ideology is slippery and has a “beyond race” character. Fourth, I explain that the Obama moment is part of the new racism, color-blind period and justify my claim empirically. I conclude this essay pondering if people of color will wake up and realize that the new, more “civil” way of maintaining and justifying racial things is a more formidable way of maintaining racial domination.

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Authors: Bonilla-Silva, E.
Affiliations: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Venue: American Behavioral Scientist
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2015-05-28
Volume: 59
Issue: 11
Pages: 1358-1376
ISSN: 0002-7642 (ISSN-L)
1552-3381
DOI: 10.1177/0002764215586826
OpenAlex: W2127284217
Cited by: 549
References: 97
Citations by year: 2026: 36 · 2025: 54 · 2024: 73 · 2023: 78 · 2022: 71 · 2021: 79 · 2020: 51 · 2019: 49 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 4
FWCI: 63.01
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: American Behavioral Scientist (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Race, History, and American Society
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Movements and Cultural Identity
Keywords: colorblind racism, post-racialism, structural racism, new racism, racial ideology, racial order, Jim Crow, racial domination, Barack Obama, civil rights era

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