Seeing race again : countering colorblindness across the disciplines

431 Pages·2019·4.78 MB·English

by  Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

Seeing Race Again
COUNTERING COLORBLINDNESS
ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
Edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw,
Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang,
and George Lipsitz
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

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Seeing Race Again

Seeing Race Again
COUNTERING COLORBLINDNESS
ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
Edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw,
Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang,
and George Lipsitz
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Crenshaw, Kimberlé, editor. | Harris, Luke Charles, 1950– editor. |
HoSang, Daniel, editor. | Lipsitz, George, editor.
Title: Seeing race again : countering colorblindness across the disciplines /
edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel
Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz.
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: lccn 2018035602 (print) | lccn 2018041744 (ebook) |
isbn 9780520972148 (epub and ePDF) | isbn 9780520300972 (cloth : alk.
paper) | isbn 9780520300996 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: lcsh: Racism in higher education—United States. | Multicultural
education—United States. | Post-racialism—United States. | Race
discrimination—United States. | United States—Race relations.
Classification: lcc lc212.42 (ebook) | lcc lc212.42 .s44 2019 (print) |
ddc 344/.0798—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018035602
Manufactured in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments: Praying to the Disciplinary
Gods with One Eye Open ix
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris,
Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz
1 • Introduction 1
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris,
Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz
PART ONE:
MASKS
2 • The Sounds of Silence: How Race Neutrality
Preserves White Supremacy 23
George Lipsitz
3 • Unmasking Colorblindness in the Law: Lessons from
the Formation of Critical Race Theory 52
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
4 • Masking Legitimized Racism: Indigeneity, Colorblindness,
and the Sociology of Race 85
Dwanna L. McKay
5 • On the Transportability, Malleability, and Longevity of
Colorblindness: Reproducing White Supremacy
in Brazil and South Africa 105
Marzia Milazzo
6 • How Colorblindness Flourished
in the Age of Obama 128
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
PART TWO:
MOVES
7 • The Possessive Investment in Classical Music: Confronting
Legacies of White Supremacy in U.S. Schools
and Departments of Music 155
Loren Kajikawa
8 • Powerblind Intersectionality: Feminist Revanchism
and Inclusion as a One-Way Street 175
Barbara Tomlinson
9 • Colorblind Intersectionality 200
Devon W. Carbado
10 • Causality, Context, and Colorblindness: Equal Educational
Opportunity and the Politics of Racist Disavowal 224
Leah N. Gordon
11 • Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging
the Myth of “Preferential Treatment” 246
Luke Charles Harris and Uma Narayan
PART THREE:
RESISTANCE AND TRANSFORMATION
12 • They (Color) Blinded Me with Science: Counteracting
Coloniality of Knowledge in Hegemonic Psychology 271
Glenn Adams and Phia S. Salter
13 • Toward a New Research Agenda? Foucault, Whiteness,
and Indigenous Sovereignty 293
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
14 • Why Black Lives Matter in the Humanities 307
Felice Blake
15 • Negotiating Privileged Students’ Affective Resistances:
Why a Pedagogy of Emotional Engagement Is Necessary 327
Paula Ioanide
16 • Shifting Frames: Pedagogical Interventions
in Colorblind Teaching Practice 352
Milton Reynolds
List of Contributors 375
Index 379