You will select a prominent Congressperson from the current US Congress to examine closely. I encourage you to select a politician with a relatively lengthy record of political service so that you have enough evidence to gather for your project. Specifically, you will compare how the politician explains the root causes of racial/ethnic inequalities in US society.
Does the politician adopt a structural approach to explaining racial/ethnic inequalities, or a color-blind approach?
LINK: https://www.congress.gov/members
Identify the politicians, you have selected, their party affiliation, and which state they serve
Analyze pieces of data. You can draw on any combination of the following data options: an original tweet from the politician’s verified Twitter account OR a webpage from the politician’s verified campaign website OR a news article/video/audio segment in which a journalist conducts a one-on-one interview with the politician. In your analysis, you must explain how Bonilla-Silva’s Racism Without Racists helped you classify the politician’s remarks as exemplary of either a structural or color-blind approach to explaining the root causes of racial/ethnic inequalities in US society (consider, in particular, Bonilla-Silva’s articulation of the 4 color-blind frames). (abstract liberalism, cultural racism, naturalization, and minimization of racism.