Categories
Media and Race
The legal history of color blindness. “Color blindness” is a racial ideology with a long history. At present, it often manifests when in conversation about race, people say things like “I don’t see color” or “I just don’t see race as a problem in today’s society. After all, we had a black president!”
Let’s consider some recent scholarship on color blindness and post-racism.
Please provide a substantive one to two-paragraph reaction to the videos and articles provided in the files. Also, offer a question to stimulate class discussion.