Left of Black S3:E6 | Color-Blind Racism in the Obama Era

Left of Black S3:E6 | October 22, 2012

Color-Blind Racism in the Obama Era 

Left of Black host and Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studios by Eduardo Bonilla Silva, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at Duke University.  Neal and Bonilla-Silva, the author of the now classic Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, discuss the Obama Presidency, the importance of a social justice politics, and the insidiousness of “color-blind” racism.

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Left of Black is a weekly Webcast hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and produced in collaboration with the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University.

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Recorded in Tulsa, OK, in partnership with National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).