Citation

Steinberg S. Race Soc. 1998; 1(1): 5-14.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S1090-9524(99)80183-1

PMID

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Abstract

Despite its repudiation of scientific racism, the liberal paradigm on race had two fateful flaws: 1) it conceptualized racism in terms of attitudes rather than conditions; and 2) it failed to specify what elements of "environment" accounted for persistent racial inequalities. The result has been another victim-blaming paradigm that merely substituted culture for genes, deflecting attention away from the crucial role that political and economic institutions play in the production and reproduction of racial inequality.