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Educational Qualification And Racial Attitudes: Does Educational Qualification Really Matter?, Bonny Ghosh
Educational Qualification And Racial Attitudes: Does Educational Qualification Really Matter?, Bonny Ghosh
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Most of the literature on social inequality reports that traditional old-fashioned, overt racism has been transformed into a modern symbolic form of covert racism in contemporary American society. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva asserts that “color-blind racism” is the dominant form of racism that persists in the post-Civil Rights period in the USA. A large body of research argues that education may not make too much of a difference in individuals’ racial attitudes. Studies also show that despite the fact that education is a crucial social institution, it cannot make the ills of intolerance and negative racial perceptions cease to exist. Given the …