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From Black Land to Fifth Sun: The Science of Sacred Sites. Brian Fagan. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.403 pp.

Foreword: Bearing the cross / by Michael Eric Dyson -- Introduction -- How I got here. For colored girls who consider journalism when twitter is not enough ; I'm beat! ; Ring the alarm! -- How WE got here. The Trump card ; The red summer ; White economic anxiety in West Virginia [crossed out] Black economic anxiety in Michigan ; Georgia outkasts ; Ohio and the purge ; Florida man ; You down with GOP? ; Silencing Black women ; Kamala's campaign -- Where we need to go. If you don't vote, you don't count? ; Fade to Black.

In the recent years the "black economy" has held immense
attraction for academics as well as policy-makers. This is because the
presence of the black economy is responsible for distortions in the
official estimates of macro-economic variables like income generation,
employment, rate of inflation, etc., and thus the possible effect on the
economic policies cannot be ascertained properly. It, therefore, becomes
imperative to investigate this area of research. Researchers have
defined the underground economy in alternative ways. The underground
economy defined by varied names like black, shadow, hidden, informal,
clandestine, second, parallel economy has been divided in four
categories for the use of a standard basis of classification [Feige
(1990)].

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The concept of colorblind racism has been developed in recent years to explain racial attitudes held by white Americans in the post–civil rights era. The authors use data from a new nationally representative survey with an oversample of black Americans to investigate the prevalence of core elements of colorblind ideology and to see the extent to which both black and white Americans adhere to three core dimensions of colorblindness theory: (1) abstract liberalism, (2) minimization of racism, and (3) cultural racism. They find that there are differences between black and white Americans with regard to their awareness of systemic dimensions of racial inequality. Yet they also find that the differences are not always large and that there is more awareness of racial inequality among whites than existing theories might suggest. Additionally, although blacks are much more likely than whites to reject some elements of colorblindness, the ideals of one element, abstract liberalism, are widely adopted by black and white Americans alike. The authors conclude with a discussion of the implications of these findings and the underlying tensions and variations for existing theories of colorblindness.