Eileen O’brien

Eileen O’Brien’s book, White Men on Race, examines the racial attitudes of 100 of America’s most powerful white men. It talks about elite white men’s view on the racial discrimination between African Americans and White men. By interviewing with elite white men, it is exposed that how white men perceive their identity against black people. It is indicated that even though white people express their privileges over Black people overtly, subtle bias and stereotypic mind was shown in the research.

Author say, today, most whites benefit not only from these social inheritances but also from continuing discrimination in workplaces, housing, schools, and politics. On average, white people garner much more income and have much more greater wealth than Black people.

One of the oldest and most fundamental ideas of racial idea in the U.S.A is that White people is superior to Black people. This racialized thinking supports legal segregation of African Americans and their exploitation for the gain of whites. Even though white people express their superiority or denying it, they keep superiority, which is established in a long time, in their mind. With this view point, White people blame African American’s interior values such as lack of commitment of hard work or education and lack of religious values. White people believe these are reasons of African American peoples’ inferiority in socially and economically.

Members of the white male elite do not take it seriously about the effects of segregation and discrimination against blacks; however, they overestimate the harm done to whites by "reverse discrimination," and they feel uneasy their daughters’ marriage with black. For example, on television and in the movies, interracial dating and marriage have been taboo topics until very recently. One of the concerns about interracial marriage is that everyday difficulty and suffering, the poor quality of life which can be faced by interracial couples. Other obstacles are negative attitude and reactions of other people in the couple’s social environment, difficulty in finding good neighbors and homes, and projected problems they will face in raising their children. In addition, lack of common ground between interracial