Colorblind
Subtitle: the rise of post-racial politics and the retreat from racial equity
By: Tim Wise.
Series: Open media series
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780872865082
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
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The rise and triumph of post-racial liberalism; title: Colorblind universalism and public policy; title: Barack obama and the rhetoric of racial transcendence; title: The trouble with post-racial liberalism; title: The reality of racial disparities; title: Race-based injury, inherited disadvantage and ongoing discrimination; title: Dispensing with victim-blaming : the inadequacy of culture of poverty thinking; title: How colorblindness can make racism worse; title: Talking class, hearing race : why post-racial liberalism fails on its own terms; title: Illuminated individualism : a paradigm for progressive color-consciousness; title: Illuminated individualism as a key to fairness and equity; title: Illuminated individualism in practice.