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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Covert racism, subtle in application, often appears hidden by norms of association, affiliation, group membership and/or identity.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Covert racism, subtle in application, often appears hidden by norms of association, affiliation, group membership and/or identity. As such, covert racism is often excused or confused with mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion, ritual and ceremony, acceptance and rejection. Covert racism operates as a boundary keeping mechanism whose primary purpose is to maintain social distance between racial majorities and racial minorities<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>A half century after the civil rights movement succeeded in putting to an end the most overt forms of racial oppression characteristic of the Jim Crow era, coming to terms with how to characterize the nature of the nation's post-civil-rights era racial formation has been an enduring focus of both academics and the public at large. This is a useful one-stop guide devoted to explaining how, to borrow from Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, "racism without racists' works. <b>Summing Up</b>: Recommended. All levels/libraries.<br>--<i>Choice</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Rodney D. Coates, Ph.D. (1987) in Sociology, University of Chicago, is Professor of Sociology at Miami University. He has published extensively in the areas of critical race and ethnic relations including his edited text <i>Race and Ethnic Relations: Across Time, Space and Discipline</i> (Brill 2004).

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