Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
Daria Roithmayr’s book, Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage, situates the reproduction of racism outside of intentionally inflicted racist acts. She argues that even if racism by individual design ceases, everyday decisions by Whites lock in the many decades’, and even centuries’, of entrenched structures of White advantage. Tracing the history of race in America especially from Jim Crow, Roithmayr illustrates how White advantage was locked in through wealth accumulation protections given Whites and denied Blacks, through the real estate market practices favoring Whites, in educational policies perpetuated through a de jure then a de facto system, through the use of incarceration and its rise against Blacks soon after the end of slavery, and even in the levels of Black infant mortality.
Recommended Citation
JOTWELL (June 16, 2015) (reviewing Daria Roithmayr, Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage (2014)), http://equality.jotwell.com/breaking-cartels-to-stymie-the-reproduction-ofracism- and-breaking-them-in-time/.