Color Blindness
"This ideology, which acquired cohesiveness and dominance in the late 1960's, explains contemporary racial inequality as the outcome of non-racial dynamics."
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva,
Racism Without Racists
Racism Without Racists
Untitled, Stephanie Kenyaa Mzee
"Statements to the contrary, insisting on the meaninglessness of race to the American identity, are themselves full of meaning. The world does not become raceless in literary discourse itself a racial act. Pouring rhetorical acid on the fingers of a black hand may indeed destroy the prints, but not the hand. Besides, what happens in that violent, self-serving act of erasure to the hands, the fingers, the fingerprints of the one who does the pouring? Do they remain acid-free?"
Toni Morrison,
Playing in the Dark
Playing in the Dark
"The widespread and mistaken belief that racial animus is necessary for the creation and maintenance of radicalized systems of social control is the most important reason that we, as a nation, have remained in deep denial"
Michelle Alexander,
The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow
"Most whites assert that they "don't see any color, just people" |
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva,
Racism Without Racists
Racism Without Racists
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