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In an updated new edition of this classic work, a team of highly
respected sociologists, political scientists, economists,
criminologists, and legal scholars scrutinize the resilience of
racial inequality in twenty-first-century America. Whitewashing
Race argues that contemporary racism manifests as discrimination in
nearly every realm of American life, and is further perpetuated by
failures to address the compounding effects of generations of
disinvestment. Police violence, mass incarceration of Black people,
employment and housing discrimination, economic deprivation, and
gross inequities in health care combine to deeply embed racial
inequality in American society and economy. Updated to include the
most recent evidence, including contemporary research on the
racially disparate effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, this edition
of Whitewashing Race analyzes the consequential and ongoing legacy
of "disaccumulation" for Black communities and lives. While some
progress has been made, the authors argue that real racial justice
can be achieved only if we actively attack and undo pervasive
structural racism and its legacies.
The American welfare state is often blamed for exacerbating
social problems confronting African Americans while failing to
improve their economic lot. Michael K. Brown contends that our
welfare system has in fact denied them the social provision it
gives white citizens while stigmatizing them as recipients of
government benefits for low income citizens. In his provocative
history of America's "safety net" from its origins in the New Deal
through much of its dismantling in the 1990s, Brown explains how
the forces of fiscal conservatism and racism combined to shape a
welfare state in which blacks are disproportionately excluded from
mainstream programs.
Brown describes how business and middle class opposition to
taxes and spending limited the scope of the Social Security Act and
work relief programs of the 1930s and the Great Society in the
1960s. These decisions produced a welfare state that relies heavily
on privately provided health and pension programs and cash benefits
for the poor. In a society characterized by pervasive racial
discrimination, this outcome, Michael Brown makes clear, has led to
a racially stratified welfare system: by denying African Americans
work, whites limited their access to private benefits as well as to
social security and other forms of social insurance, making welfare
their "main occupation." In his conclusion, Brown addresses the
implications of his argument for both conservative and liberal
critiques of the Great Society and for policies designed to remedy
inner-city poverty.
The American welfare state is often blamed for exacerbating
social problems confronting African Americans while failing to
improve their economic lot. Michael K. Brown contends that our
welfare system has in fact denied them the social provision it
gives white citizens while stigmatizing them as recipients of
government benefits for low income citizens. In his provocative
history of America's "safety net" from its origins in the New Deal
through much of its dismantling in the 1990s, Brown explains how
the forces of fiscal conservatism and racism combined to shape a
welfare state in which blacks are disproportionately excluded from
mainstream programs.
Brown describes how business and middle class opposition to
taxes and spending limited the scope of the Social Security Act and
work relief programs of the 1930s and the Great Society in the
1960s. These decisions produced a welfare state that relies heavily
on privately provided health and pension programs and cash benefits
for the poor. In a society characterized by pervasive racial
discrimination, this outcome, Michael Brown makes clear, has led to
a racially stratified welfare system: by denying African Americans
work, whites limited their access to private benefits as well as to
social security and other forms of social insurance, making welfare
their "main occupation." In his conclusion, Brown addresses the
implications of his argument for both conservative and liberal
critiques of the Great Society and for policies designed to remedy
inner-city poverty.
"In "Whitewashing Race, an impressive and diverse group of scholars
launch an empirically grounded assault on the vast body of
colorblind orthodoxy. The authors harness a medley of disciplinary
perspectives into a cogent argument about racial stratification
accompanied by a set of practical racial justice policy options.
Their aim is both simple and ambitious: to reinvigorate a moribund
debate by marshalling their collective intellectual resources to
demonstrate that the conservative consensus on race is neither
morally sustainable nor logically defensible."--Lani Guinier,
coauthor of "The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power,
Transforming Democracy"This powerful book disposes of the claim, so
often heard, that America has solved its race problem and can now
be 'color-blind.' Based on hard facts, it shows how we must
work--for the sake of all of us--to give Black Americans the
reality of equal opportunity."--Anthony Lewis, author of "Gideon's
Trumpet"An essential book. Americans have always worked hard at
burying our racial truths, thereby leaving half-truths, myths and
raw bigotry to continue their brutal work on our most vulnerable
citizens. The authors cauterize these terrible wounds with
prodigious research and brilliant insights. Their work is a great
service to justice and to our country."--Roger Wilkins, author of
"Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black
Patriotism"For many years conservative scholars and think tanks
have been trying to convince the American public that racism is
dead and that race-specific policies, such as affirmative action,
cannot be justified and are in fact detrimental. To a great extent
they have succeeded in makingostensible 'color-blindness' the
dominant test of law and policy affecting racial minorities. Now at
last we have the definitive response to this argument. It comes
from seven distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines who
believe that race must be taken into account if we are ever to get
beyond racism. With massive evidence, much of it quantitative, they
blast conservative color-blindness to smithereens, showing that it
really functions as a formula to perpetuate racial inequality. No
one concerned with racial justice in America can afford to ignore
this book."--George M. Fredrickson, author of "Racism: A Short
History""Whitewashing Race is the most important social science
statement on race in more than a decade. It lays bare the expressly
conservative, ideological, and deeply flawed analyses of those
pundits pressing for 'color-blind' social policy. With lucid prose
and truly definitive scholarship, Brown, Wellman, and colleagues
thoroughly debunk the reigning conservative consensus. Anyone who
cares about racial justice and the fate of the American Dream
should read this vitally important book."--Lawrence D. Bobo, editor
of "Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles"Far from
writing a collection of essays, the authors of "Whitewashing Race
have collaborated to produce a brilliant, seamless book on
America's deepest divide. Framed as a response to conservative
analysts who claim that racial problems are essentially solved, the
book provides an authoritative overview of how the nation's two
principal races still remain sharply apart by every social
measure."--Andrew Hacker, author of "Two Nations: Black and White,
Separate, Hostile, Unequal"In today's political climate, even the
most well-meaning liberal tends to believe that institutional
racism is a thing of the past and that we've truly achieved a
color-blind society. "Whitewashing Race makes a powerful case that
racism is still with us. Relying on solid evidence rather than
polemics, the authors have amassed an overwhelming body of data to
show the persistence of racism in the job and housing market,
education, the criminal justice system, and the political arena. If
we ever have a real 'national conversation' on race, "Whitewashing
Race ought to be mandatory reading."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of
"Freedom Dreams
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