>There was an article in LBO a while back in an issue I have
>unfortunately lost. (Maybe Doug can dig it out.) It made some strong
>statistical arguments that -- in the case if racism anyway -- whites
>gain more from racism than from a partial reduction in racism.
It's an article by the excellent Heather Boushey, and it's on the LBO website <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Race_curve.html>, along with a longer, more formal version of the argument in MS Word format, and an archived thread of the discussion of it on this list.
Doug