Silent Racism How Wellmeaning White People Perpetuate The Racial Divide Barbara Trepagnier by Barbara Trepagnier 9781594518270, 1594518270 instant download after payment.

Vivid and engaging, Silent Racism persuasively
demonstrates that silent racism—racism by people who classify themselves
as “not racist”—is instrumental in the production of institutional
racism. Trepagnier argues that heightened race awareness is more
important in changing racial inequality than judging whether individuals
are racist. The collective voices and confessions of “nonracist” white
women heard in this book help reveal that all individuals harbor some
racist thoughts and feelings. Trepagnier uses vivid focus group
interviews to argue that the oppositional categories of racist/not
racist are outdated. The oppositional categories should be replaced in
contemporary thought with a continuum model that more accurately
portrays today’s racial reality in the United States.