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Bonilla-Silva, E., & Dietrich, D. (2011). The Sweet Enchantment of Color-Blind Racism in Obamerica. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 634(1), 190–206.

Description: It has become accepted dogma among whites in the United States that race is no longer a central factor determining the life chances of Americans. In this article, the authors counter this myth by describing how the ideology of color-blind racism works to defend and justify the contemporary racial order. The authors illustrate three basic frames of this ideology, namely, abstract liberalism, cultural racism, and minimization of racism.

Embrick, D. G. (2015). Two Nations, Revisited: The Lynching of Black and Brown Bodies, Police Brutality, and Racial Control in “Post-Racial” Amerikkka. Critical Sociology.

Description: Embrick presents information comparing the treatment of black and brown bodies in the 1960s to the treatment today in light of police violence.  He discusses areas of similarity between the two times and the suggestion that a new movement needs to recognize the new form of racism.