| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society. By Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xii, 338 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-520-23706-4.)

Whitewashing Race is a response from the Left to the growing number of conservative books on American racial inequality and racial politics. It is a counter to an emerging perspective that its authors (representing leading scholars from sociology, economics, political science, and law) label "racial realism" (p. 5). The racial realist category includes such disparate authors as Jim Sleeper, Tamar Jacoby, Shelby Steele, Dinesh D'Souza and—especially—Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom. Racial realism means methodological individualism; the goal of Whitewashing Race is to

show how and why the specific intentions and choices of individuals regarding racial discrimination or exclusion are frequently irrelevant to the emergence and maintenance of social and economic inequalities in the United States. (p. 17)

The authors provide an impressive array of empirical evidence showing the continuing relevance of race and of both intentional and unintentional discrimination.

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