Color-Blind Racism in the Obama Era

host and Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studios by Eduardo Bonilla Silva, author of the now classic.
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US President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally at the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, on October 19, 2012. After a one-night truce that saw Obama and his rival Mitt Romney trade jokes at a charity dinner, the two dashed back onto the trail Friday before prepping for their third and final debate. Each heads to one of the hotly contested political battleground states just 18 days before an election that by all accounts is on a knife edge. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally at the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, on October 19, 2012. After a one-night truce that saw Obama and his rival Mitt Romney trade jokes at a charity dinner, the two dashed back onto the trail Friday before prepping for their third and final debate. Each heads to one of the hotly contested political battleground states just 18 days before an election that by all accounts is on a knife edge. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

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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