Seeing race again : countering colorblindness across the disciplines / edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crenshaw, Kimberlé, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism in higher education--United States.

Racism in higher education.

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

Multicultural education--United States.

Multicultural education.

Post-racialism--United States.

Post-racialism.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (491 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines' research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others. By the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice. Scholars mounted insurgent efforts to discredit some of the most odious intellectual defenses of white supremacy in academia, but the disciplines and their keepers remained unwilling to interrogate many of the racist foundations of their fields, instead embracing a framework of racial colorblindness as their default position. This book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicology, literary studies, sociology, and gender studies, Seeing Race Again documents the profoundly contradictory role of the academy in constructing, naturalizing, and reproducing racial hierarchy. It shows how colorblindness compromises the capacity of disciplines to effectively respond to the wide set of contemporary political, economic, and social crises marking public life today.

Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgments: Praying to the disciplinary gods with one eye open

1. Introduction

PART ONE: MASKS. 2. The sounds of silence: how race neutrality preserves white supremacy

3. Unmasking colorblindness in the law: lessons from the formation of critical race theory

4. Masking legitimized racism: indigeneity, colorblindness, and the sociology of race

5. On the transportability, malleability, and longevity of colorblindness: reproducing white supremacy in Brazil and South Africa

6. How colorblindness flourished in the age of Obama

PART TWO: MOVES. 7. The possessive investment in classical music: confronting legacies of white supremacy in U.S. schools and departments of music

8. Powerblind intersectionality: feminist revanchism and inclusion as a one-way street

9. Colorblind intersectionality

10. Causality, context, and colorblindness: equal educational opportunity and the politics of racist disavowal

11. Affirmative action as equalizing opportunity: challenging the myth of "preferential treatment"

PART THREE; RESISTANCE AND TRANSFORMATION. 12. They (color) blinded me with science: counteracting coloniality of knowledge in hegemonic psychology

13. Toward a new research agenda? Foucault, whiteness, and indigenous sovereignty

14. Why Black lives matter in the humanities

15. Negotiating privileged students' affective resistances: why a pedagogy of emotional engagement is necessary

16. Shifting frames: pedagogical interventions in colorblind teaching practice

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520972148

0520972147

OCLC:

1050453851