Racial Ambivalence in Diverse Communities: Whiteness and the Power of Color-Blind Ideologies

by Meghan A. Burke

Book Overview

This provocative ethnography reveals how pervasive color-blind ideology remains even among pro-diversity liberals active in shaping racially diverse communities, as well as its result: the unintentional re-creation of a white habitus in a racially diverse community. The book also explores the contours of white racial identity and the concrete links between racial discourse, ideology, and social action in the contemporary United States.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739166670
• ISBN13: 9780739166673
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher