Book Review Tuesday: White-Washing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society

Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Schultz, and David Wellman collaborate on White-Washing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society. The main premise of the book is that the reason America has not reached its egalitarian

The authors tackle racism, privilege, poverty, education, criminal justice, discrimination in employment, and voting rights. The authors knock down various assertions made by conservatives that American is now a color-blind society. In actuality it is not a color-blind society legally, culturally or in the business world (See the previous post on When Affirmative Was White by Ira Katznelson).