The second edition of Melanie Bush's acclaimed Everyday Forms of
Whiteness looks at the often-unseen ways racism impacts our lives. The
author has interviewed and surveyed hundreds of college students and
reveals that even though we talk as though we live in a "post-racial"
world after the election of Barack Obama, racism is still very much a
factor in everyday life. The second edition incorporates new data and
interviews to show how the everyday thinking of ordinary people
contributes to the perpetuation of systemic racialized inequality. The
book introduces key terms for the study for race and ethnicity, reveals
the mechanisms that support the racial hierarchy in U.S. society, then
outlines ways we can challenge long-standing patterns of racial
inequality.