Postscript on "Race" as a Social Construct

As it happens, when I read and criticized Michael J. Smith's ruminations on race yesterday, I had just begun reading Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism & Racial Inequality in Contemporary America (3rd edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010). I'd picked it up off the new arrivals shelves at the university library because it included a new chapter on the "Obama