Color-cognizance and Color-blindness in White America: Perceptions of Whiteness and Their Potential to Predict Racial Policy Attitudes at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 209-224

  Lopez Bunyasi, Tehama ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

color blind; race; racial inequality; racial policy attitudes; racial privilege; white privilege

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930437564     PISSN: 23326492     EISSN: 23326506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2332649214553446     Document Type: Article

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