Colorblind : the rise of post-racial politics and the retreat from racial equity / Tim Wise.
Book Description: In this powerful follow-up to Between Barack and a Hard Place, Tim Wise argues against "colorblindness" and for a deeper color-consciousness in both public and private practice. We can only begin to move toward authentic social and economic equity through what Wise call...
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San Francisco, CA :
City Lights Books,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Rise And Triumph Of Post-Racial Liberalism:
- Colorblind universalism and public policy
- Barack Obama and the rhetoric of racial transcendence
- Trouble With Post-Racial Liberalism:
- 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
- Notes
- About the author.