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Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism : The title: Hidden Costs of Being Black in America Critical America author: Armour, Jody David. publisher: New York University Press isbn10 | asin: 0814706401 print isbn13: 9780814706404 ebook isbn13: 9780585028279 language: English Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States, African subject Americans--Civil rights, Racism--United States, United States--Race relations. publication date: 1997 lcc: HV9950.A75 1997eb ddc: 305.896/073 Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States, African subject: Americans--Civil rights, Racism--United States, United States--Race relations. Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism Page ii Critical America General Editors: RICHARD DELGADO and JEAN STEFANCIC White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race Ian F. Haney López Cultivating Intelligence: Power, Law, and the Politics of Teaching Louise Harmon and Deborah W. Post Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America Stephanie M. Wildman with Margalynne Armstrong, Adrienne D. Davis, and Trina Grillo Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor? or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Afford a Loaf of Bread R. George Wright Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits under American Law Ruth Colker Critical Race Feminism: A Reader Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States Edited by Juan F. Perea Taxing America Edited by Karen B. Brown and Mary Louise Fellows Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Colorblindness and the End of Affirmative Action Bryan K. Fair Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State Stephen M. Feldman To Be an American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation Bill Ong Hing Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America Jody David Armour Black Rage Confronts the Law Paul Harris Page iii NEGROPHOBIA AND REASONABLE RACISM The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America Jody David Armour NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London Page iv NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London Copyright © 1997 by New York University All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Armour, Jody David. Negrophobia and reasonable racism : the hidden costs of being Black in America / Jody David Armour. p. cm. (Critical America) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8147-0640-1 (acid-free paper) 1. Discrimination in criminal justice administrationUnited States. 2. Afro-AmericansCivil rights. 3. RacismUnited States. 4. United StatesRace relations. I. Title. II. Series. HV9950.A75 1997 305.896'073-dc21 96-51306 CIP New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Page v To Addie Armour and in memory of Fred Armour Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 "Rational" Discrimination and the Black Tax Chapter One 19 The "Reasonable Racist": A Slippery Oxymoron How We Know What We Know: The Typical, the Reasonable, 22 and the Accurate Why We Blame Whom We Blame: The Typical, the Reasonable, 27 and the Damnable Chapter Two 35 The "Intelligent Bayesian": Reckoning with Rational Discrimination Why Rational Discrimination Is Not Reasonable 46 Race and the Subversion of Rationality 58

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Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.
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