The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a -colorblind- racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of integration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality this attitude serves to reify and legitimize racism and protects racial privileges by denying and minimizing the effects of systematic and institutionalized racism.
In The Colorblind Screen, the contributors examine...
The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a definin...
The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a defining social, cultural, and political issue. While many Americans espouse a -colorblind- racial ideology and publicly endorse the broad goals of integration and equal treatment without regard to race, in actuality this attitude serves to reify and legitimize racism and protects racial privileges by denying and minimizing the effects of systematic and institutionalized racism.
In The Colorblind Screen, the contributors examine...
The election of President Barack Obama signaled for many the realization of a post-racial America, a nation in which racism was no longer a definin...