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"Colorblind" Racism


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Ethnic Studies (General)

October 1997 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Many of the vestiges of the Civil Rights movement in the United States, including initiatives such as affirmative action, are increasingly under attack by those who assert that the Constitution is explicitly `colourblind'. In this provocative and timely book, Leslie G Carr suggests that the Constitution can be read as `racist' and that the concept of `colourblindness' is in fact the latest in a series of racist ideologies that have been part of the fabric of the United States.
 
Theories of Ideology
 
Christianity, the Constitution and Slavery
 
Sharecropping and the Rise of Evolutionary `Racist' Ideology
 
National Self-Determination and the Consociational State
 
Prelude to `Integration'
 
Civil Rights and Civil Uprising
 
The Colorblind Reaction
 
Colorblindness
Illusions and Consequences

 

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