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Foreword | |
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Introduction | |
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Is Racism a Serious Problem? | |
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Different Views on the Problem of Racism: An Overview The Economist | |
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With a noticeable gap in earnings and achievement between black and white Americans, people differ in their opinions of how much racism is to blame | |
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Yes: Racism Is a Serious Problem | |
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The Problem of Racism Is Worse than White America Admits | |
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The incidents in Jena, Louisiana, shows how deep racism runs in American culture and how much the issue has been ignored and neglected | |
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Today's Racial Inequalities Are a Product of America's Racist Past | |
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Though moving past America's history of slavery may seem like an attractive goal, it is important to not ignore it in trying to understand the roots of today's racism | |
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Racism Remains a Reality in American Culture National Catholic Reporter | |
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An incident where a so-called shock jock made racist comments on the radio reveals that racism remains a reality in America | |
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No: Racism Is Not a Serious Problem | |
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The Role of Racism in America Is Overstated | |
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Those who claim that the slow government response to Hurricane Katrina was due to racism are wrong | |
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Racial Inequalities Are the Product of Culture, Not Racism | |
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The redneck culture of the South, and not white racism, explains why there are widespread racial inequalities between blacks and whites in America | |
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Racism in America Is Wanning | |
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Despite the continued presence of bigots among the older generation, racism is waning and is less common among younger generations | |
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Is Racism Institutionalized in Society and Culture? | |
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Chapter Preface | |
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Yes: Racism Is Institutionalized in Society and Culture | |
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Racism Today Is Subtle, Insidious, and Systemic | |
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Racism is no longer overt but has become systemic throughout institutions, silently perpetuated by those who do not consider themselves racist | |
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Racism Plays a Significant Role in Promoting Economic Inequality | |
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The wealth gap between blacks and whites is perpetuated by racism and has a far greater effect on economic well-being than the income gap between blacks and whites | |
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Racial Disparity in Prisons Is the Result of Racism | |
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The disproportionate numbers of racial minorities in prison is linked to America's racist past and continues the same racial hierarchy | |
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No: Racism Is Not Institutionalized in Society and Culture | |
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Institutional Racism Is an Invention to Stifle Dissent | |
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The explanation of institutional racism as the reason for the struggles of African Americans is an unsupported hypothesis that people blindly support, censoring those who disagree | |
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Racism Is Not the Most Significant Factor in Economic Inequality | |
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Disparities of wealth along racial lines are better explained by rates of out-of-wedlock births than by racism | |
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Disparity in Prison Populations Is Not the Result of Racism | |
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The reason for higher incarceration rates among black men has to do with excessive penalties for crime and the state of black family life, not racism | |
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Is Affirmative Action Effective Against Racism? | |
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Affirmative Action: An Overview | |
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Americans' views on affirmative action depend on what sort of policies they think affirmative action entails | |
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Yes: Affirmative Action Is Effective Against Racism | |
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Affirmative Action Is Necessary and Is Not Special Treatment | |
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Affirmative action is still necessary for women and racial minorities, and efforts to outlaw it rely on fraud and deception | |
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Affirmative Action Is a Necessary Part of the Solution to Racism | |
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The movement to end affirmative action relies on pre-conceptions and assumptions about a tool that was meant to be merely a part of addressing our nation's racist past | |
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Affirmative Action Promotes Diversity | |
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Affirmative action is a valuable tool for promoting diversity, and where it is prohibited, other methods must be used to reach this important goal | |
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No: Affirmative Action Is Not Effective Against Racism | |
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Affirmative Action Harms Minority Students | |
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A new study shows that the affirmative action programs that are supposed to help black law students end up harming them by mismatching them with schools | |
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Affirmative Action Harms Minority Professionals | |
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Racial preferences used in hiring lawyers at law firms and up harming minority applicants in the long run | |
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Affirmative Action Supports a View of African Americans as Victims | |
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There is no need anymore for affirmative action, but liberal black leaders continue to support it because they continue to view blacks as victims | |
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Trying to Achieve Diversity with Affirmative Action Is Racist | |
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Affirmative action proponents claim that racial preferences are justified in the name of diversity, but those preferences are another form of racism | |
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What Should Be Done About Racism? | |
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Chapter Preface | |
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Whites and Blacks Must Play a Role in Eliminating Racism | |
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America's racist past has led to the current racial divide, elimination of which will require both whites and blacks to work together to form a more perfect union | |
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Acknowledging Feelings About Race Is a Necessary Step to Ending Racism | |
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Rational, intellectual debates cannot effectively deal with the problem of racism, which is driven by emotions such as fear and anxiety | |
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Having a Black President Will Help to Eliminate Racism | |
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Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election is a large symbol that a post-racial America is possible, and it will help move the country in that direction | |
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Having a Black President Will Not Eliminate Racism | |
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The election of Barack Obama as president will not lead to a post-racial America and will not change the racial politics of America | |
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Color-Blind Idealism Must Be Unmasked as Denial | |
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The desire to ignore race in an attempt to show that one is not racist is steeped in denial and does not help the problem of racism | |
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To End Racism, Stop Focusing on Race | |
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In attempting to combat racism, what does not work is to obsess about race and focus on group identity; rather, colorblind courtesy is what is needed | |
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To Fight Racism Whites Need to Recognize Their Privilege | |
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White people need to recognize racism in American society by becoming aware of their privilege, or white benefits, and then work to change the culture | |
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White Guilt Does Not Help End Racism | |
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The dominant cultural role of blacks as victims and whites as guilty does nothing to end racism, and is in effect a form of victimization for blacks | |
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Organizations to Contact | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |