Colorblind
The Rise of Post-racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2010]
Format: Ebook
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"Tim Wise's Colorblind is a Powerful and Urgently needed book. One of our best and most courageous public voices on racial inequity, Wise tackles head-on the resurgence and absurdity of post-racial liberalism in a world still largely structured by deep racial disparity and structural inequity. He shows us with passion and sharp, insightful, accessible analysis how this imagined world of post-racial framing and policy can't take us where we want to go--it actually stymies our progress toward racial unity and equality."--Tricia Rose, author of The Hip Hop Wars --
Series: Open Media book.
Contents:
The rise and triumph of post-racial liberalism -- Colorblind universalism and public policy -- Barack Obama and the rhetoric of racial transcendence -- The trouble with post-racial liberalism -- The reality of racial disparities -- Race-based injury, inherited disadvantage and ongoing discrimination -- Dispensing with victim-blaming : the inadequacy of culture of poverty thinking -- How colorblindness can make racism worse -- Talking class, hearing race : why post-racial liberalism fails on its own terms -- Illuminated individualism : a paradigm for progressive color-consciousness -- Illuminated individualism as a key to fairness and equity -- Illuminated individualism in practice.
Subjects:
Racism -- Political aspects -- United States.
Liberalism -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
Racism -- Political aspects -- United States.
Liberalism -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
ISBN:
9780872865549
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Ebook
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213).
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213).
Description based on print version record.