An edition of Colorblind (2010)

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the rise of post-racial politics and the retreat from racial equity

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An edition of Colorblind (2010)

Colorblind

the rise of post-racial politics and the retreat from racial equity

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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 calls "illuminated individualism"--Acknowledging the diverse identities that have shaped our perceptions, and the role that race continues to play in the maintenance of disparities between whites and people of color in the United States today. This is the first book to discuss the pitfalls of "colorblindness" in the Obama era.

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Publisher
City Lights Books
Language
English
Pages
213

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
San Francisco
Series
Open media series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.800973
Library of Congress
E185.615 .W557 2010, E184.A1

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
213

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24098889M
ISBN 13
9780872865082
LCCN
2010006545
OCLC/WorldCat
456178318

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL18751015W

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