ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that theoretical framework and explains the study of African American male former law school students. It offers definitions of race and racism, relying primarily on Omi and Winant’s notions of the paradigm of race and racial projects. The chapter examines Bonilla-Silva’s ideas of how color-blind racism continues to perpetuate the ownership status attached to law school admission and how “Whiteness as property” explains historically marginalized students’ continued existence as guests “in someone else’s house.” It suggests that racial ideologies originate at the intersection of fear and safety. Fear allows those in the most privileged positions to remind others of the perils of being anything other than the privileged race. The class theory of race found its origins in the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and Max Weber. Class theorists “understood race in terms of group-based stratification and economic competition”.
