Anything but Racism: How Sociologists Limit the Significance of Racism

Bonilla‐Silva, Eduardo; Baiocchi, Gianpaolo

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-70845-4_6

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“…Some scholars have argued that the importance of socioeconomic disparities for explaining racial disparities in educational outcomes indicates that racial disparities in educational attainment have been eclipsed by class-based disparities in the twenty-first century, and the significance of race for educational disparities is declining (Gamoran 2001). This approach is characteristic of scholarship that attempts to disentangle race from class when interpreting statistical models (Bonilla-Silva and Baiocchi 2001). In contrast, I argue that large scale racial inequalities in educational attainment of the kind shown here are best understood as result of a fundamentally racist social system that manifests in different ways across students’ educational careers.…”

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Completing the Educational Career: High School Graduation, Four-year College Enrollment, and Bachelor’s Degree Completion among Black, Hispanic, and White Students

Merolla

2017

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Using data from the Education Longitudinal Study, the author investigates racial disparities in high school graduation, four-year college enrollment, and bachelor’s degree completion. In addition, the author considers how conditionally relevant college and early adult variables shape bachelor’s degree completion. The results indicate that although comparable numbers of black and Hispanic students obtain bachelor’s degrees, their educational career trajectories differ substantially. Compared with white students, black students are more likely to end their educational careers after starting college without completing a bachelor’s degree, whereas Hispanic students are more likely to end their educational careers without entering a four-year college. Moreover, early adult and college-specific variables have a substantial impact on bachelor’s degree completion and explain black-white disparities in bachelor’s degree attainment. This research shows the continuing significance of race in shaping the educational outcomes of young adults at all stages of their educational careers.

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Completing the Educational Career: High School Graduation, Four-year College Enrollment, and Bachelor’s Degree Completion among Black, Hispanic, and White Students

Merolla

2017

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…They speak of the forms of epistemological racism at the core of the production of Western science, a nodal point regulated by a powerful connection in which Cogito ego conquistus ('I conquer; therefore, I am') preceded Europe's self-representation of Cogito ergo sum ('I think; therefore, I am'), thus subordinating the European knowledge production to European colonialism (Dussel 2003). Sociologists Bonilla-Silva and Baiocchi (2001) explain the dismissal of racism as a principle of social organisation in sociology, showing that the discipline has followed rather than challenged what they conceptualise as 'white racial common sense'. The authors assert that sociologists (we see it encompassing social scientists in general), protected by a myth of neutrality and objectivity, follow understandings of racism in their analysis of inequality as relegated to a secondary status.…”

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AbstractSociologists Bonilla-Silva and Baiocchi (2001) assert that sociologists, protected by a myth of neutrality and objectivity, follow the understandings of racism in their analysis of inequality as relegated to a secondary status, either according to the Marxist tradition as the superstructure or within a Weberian framework as a form of status difference. The aim of the article is to put the study of racism, a fundamental principle of social organisation in modern society, at the centre of social theory.

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Theorising Racism: <i>Exploring the Swedish racial regime</i>

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Neergaard

2017

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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Sociologists Bonilla-Silva and Baiocchi (2001) assert that sociologists, protected by a myth of neutrality and objectivity, follow the understandings of racism in their analysis of inequality as relegated to a secondary status, either according to the Marxist tradition as the superstructure or within a Weberian framework as a form of status difference. The aim of the article is to put the study of racism, a fundamental principle of social organisation in modern society, at the centre of social theory. The aim is also to develop a productive dialogue with the traditions of Critical Race Theory (CRT), neo-Marxism and Black feminism; traditions that we will argue are highly relevant for the analysis of the Swedish racial regime.

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“…Respondents have been found to appear more racially tolerant in abstract survey questions than in in-depth interviews (Bonilla-Silva and Forman, 2000). In both interviews and surveys, respondents may mask their true views, understanding that in post-civil rights U.S. society, it is no longer socially acceptable to express racial biases (Bonilla-Silva and Baiocchi, 2001; Gallagher 2008). Examining the acceptance of various racial groups among people in a real-life dating situation free from opportunity constraints overcomes these limitations and thus offers a unique perspective on the salience of racial and ethnic boundaries.…”

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HOW EXTERNAL RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS SHAPE LATINO DATING CHOICES¹

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Robnett

2014

Du Bois Rev.

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Understanding how different dimensions of race relate to the lived experiences of Latinos may shed light on the assimilation trajectories of different segments of the Latino population. Existing research suggests that racial appearance influences Latinos' socioeconomic outcomes due to discrimination. However, researchers have not examined how Latinos' perceived race relates to their acceptance of other racial/ethnic groups, thus revealing their agency in the assimilation process and how it is shaped by existing racial structures. Using a sample of over 6000 profiles collected from an internet dating website, this study finds that considering others' classifications of race in addition to self-identifications changes our understanding of Latinos' acceptance of other racial/ethnic groups as dates. Latinos who appear White are most likely to exclude Blacks and include Whites as possible dates while the opposite is true for those classified as Black. Latinos perceived as Latino fall somewhere in between those with a White versus Black racial phenotype in their acceptance of Blacks and Whites. These findings suggest that neither external classifications nor self-identifications of race alone can adequately assess the assimilation prospects of self-identified Latinos: those perceived as White may be assuming the position of Whites in the racial hierarchy, those perceived as Black may be assimilating into the bottom of the racial hierarchy along with African Americans, while those perceived as Latino may be maintaining an in-between status.

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Anything but Racism: How Sociologists Limit the Significance of Racism

Cited by 34 publications

References 55 publications

Completing the Educational Career: High School Graduation, Four-year College Enrollment, and Bachelor’s Degree Completion among Black, Hispanic, and White Students

Completing the Educational Career: High School Graduation, Four-year College Enrollment, and Bachelor’s Degree Completion among Black, Hispanic, and White Students

Theorising Racism: <i>Exploring the Swedish racial regime</i>

HOW EXTERNAL RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS SHAPE LATINO DATING CHOICES¹

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Anything but Racism: How Sociologists Limit the Significance of Racism

Cited by 34 publications

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Completing the Educational Career: High School Graduation, Four-year College Enrollment, and Bachelor’s Degree Completion among Black, Hispanic, and White Students

Completing the Educational Career: High School Graduation, Four-year College Enrollment, and Bachelor’s Degree Completion among Black, Hispanic, and White Students

Theorising Racism: <i>Exploring the Swedish racial regime</i>

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