Three Books on Racism by Bob Blauner

Racial Oppression in America (Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972) 

Still the Big News: Racial Oppression in America (Temple University Press 2001) 

Black Lives, White Lives (University of California Press, first edition 1989, reissue 2022) 

 

Still the Big News: Racial Oppression in America 

By Bob Blauner 

(Temple University Press, 2001) 

 

Bob Blauner's Racial Oppression in America was a landmark text, a beacon of radical enlightenment, for those of us in the 1970s and 1980s desperately seeking an intellectual framework for critiquing mainstream American sociology's mystifications on race. This revised and expanded edition, containing many new essays, and informed throughout by authorial hindsight and second thoughts, should win a new audience for a postwar classic of critical race theory. —Charles W. Mills, Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of The Racial Contract 

For more than thirty years, Bob Blauner's incisive writing on race relations has drawn a wide and varied audience. Whether his topic is the Watts riots in 1965, Chicano culture, or the tension between Blacks and Jews, his work is remarkable for its originality and candor. Beginning with the key essays of his landmark book, Racial Oppression in America, this volume makes the case that race and racism still permeate every aspect of American experience. 

Blauner launched his concept of internal colonialism in the turbulent 1960s, a period in which many Americans worried that racial conflicts would propel the country into another civil war. The notion that the systematic oppression of people of color in the United States resembles the situation of colonized populations in Third World countries still informs much of the academic research on race as well as public discourse. Indeed, today's critical race and whiteness studies are deeply indebted to Blauner's work on internal colonialism and the pervasiveness of white privilege. Offering a radical perspective on the United States' racial landscape, Bob Blauner forcefully argues that we ignore the persistence of oppression and our continuing failure to achieve equality at our own peril. 

Blauner's thoughtful writings reflect so much of our thinking on race matters in the last three decades—the exuberant theorizing, the rising uncertainties about what we really know about race and ethnicity, and the turning to the lives and voices of people themselves. Required reading for the twenty-first century—a time when we will all be minorities. —Ronald Takaki, author of A Different Mirror 

https://tupress.temple.edu/book/3534 

 

Have a look at the chapter titles: Chapter 3. White Privilege: The Key to Racial Oppression 

Sounds familiar?