Covert Racism

Rodney D. Coates, Ph.D. (1987) in Sociology, University of Chicago, is Professor of Sociology at Miami University. He has published extensively in the areas of critical race and ethnic relations including his edited text Race and Ethnic Relations: Across Time, Space and Discipline (Brill 2004).

All those interested in race and ethnic relations, the history of race in America, the rearticulation of race, and the means of understanding how to transform the racial matrix.

"This is a useful one-stop guide devoted to explaining how, to borrow from Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, "racism without racists" works. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries." Choice, February 2012

Covert Racism – An Introduction, Rodney D. Coates

I. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COVERT RACISM
The Impact of Racial and Nonracial Structural Forces on Poor Urban Blacks, William Julius Wilson
The New Racism: The Racial Regime of Post-Civil Rights America, David Dietrich and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Race Versus Racism as Cause, Tukufu Zuberi
Color Blind White Dominance, Ian Haney Lopez
When Good People Do Bad Things: The Nature of Contemporary Racism, John F. Dovidio and Samuel L. Gaertner
Covert Racism: Theory, Types and Examples, Rodney D. Coates


II. COVERT RACISM AND INSTITUTIONS
Protecting White Power in a Corporate Hierarchy, Sharon M. Collins and Georgiann Davis
If You’re White, You’re All Right: The Reproduction of Racial Hierarchies in Bollywood Film, Angie Beeman and Anjana Narayan
Race, Culture, and the Pursuit of Employment, Monique Morris and Sirithon Thanasombat
Challenging Our Textbooks and our Teachings: Examining the Reproduction of Racism in the Sociology Classroom, Sarah Chivers and Jolene D. Smyth
Challenging Racial Battle Fatigue on Historically White Campuses: A Critical Race Examination of Race-Related Stress, William A. Smith, Tara J. Yosso, Daniel G. Solórzano
Covert Racism in the U.S. and Globally, Rodney D. Coates

III: COVERT RACISM AND THE INDIVIDUAL
The Ineffable Strangeness of Race, Patricia J. Williams
The Social Situation of the Black Executive, Elijah Anderson
Now You Don’t See It, Now You Don’t: White Lives as Covert Racism, David L. Brunsma
Aren’t They All Dead? Passive Racism Against Native Americans, Claudia Fox Tree
Silent Racism, Barbara Trepagnier
One Step From Suicide, Leslie Houts Picca, Joe R. Feagin, and Tracy L. Johns
Lifestyles of the Rich and Racist, Corey Dolgon
Journey to Awareness: Recognizing the Invisibility of Race Issues, Janet Morrison

IV: EPILOGUE
Epilogue: Post-Racial Myths: Disrupting Covert Racism and the Racial Matrix, Rodney D. Coates

List of Contributors
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