ANTI-RACIST TEACHING COLLECTIVE
  • ABOUT
    • Our Collective
  • Key Concepts
    • Abolition
    • Acculturation
    • Authenticity
    • Code Switching
    • Colonization
    • Color Blindness
    • Colorism
    • Cultural Appropriation
    • Intersectionality
    • Internalized Racism
    • Person Centered Language
    • Positionality
    • Racial Bribe
    • Racism
    • Respectability Politics
    • Whiteness
    • White Supremacy
  • Student Voices
  • In Conversation

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 

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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   
"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
"Most whites assert that they "don't see any color, just people" 

"Whites have developed powerful explanations - which ultimately become justifications - for contemporary racial inequality that exculpate them from any responsibility  for the status of people of color"
 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva,
​Racism Without Racists 


In Conversation

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Racism Without Racists
2003
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
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"Colorblindness: the New Racism?"
2009
Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs
Read Here
"Reagan Used MLK Day to Undermine Racial Justice"
2017
Justin Gomer and Christopher Petrella
Read Here
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  • ABOUT
    • Our Collective
  • Key Concepts
    • Abolition
    • Acculturation
    • Authenticity
    • Code Switching
    • Colonization
    • Color Blindness
    • Colorism
    • Cultural Appropriation
    • Intersectionality
    • Internalized Racism
    • Person Centered Language
    • Positionality
    • Racial Bribe
    • Racism
    • Respectability Politics
    • Whiteness
    • White Supremacy
  • Student Voices
  • In Conversation