American racial progress appears as a color-blind success narrative.
Evidence
In the Rose Garden, however, Reagan did not hold forth on the perils of big government. Instead, he told a brief story of the civil rights movement, a story that confirmed for him the “sense that true justice must be color-blind, and that among white and black Americans, as [King] put it, their destiny is tied up with our destiny, and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom; we cannot walk alone.” It was a familiar story of American progress on the racial front—one that began with Rosa Parks’s defiant act in Montgomery, Alabama, included the March on Washington, and resulted in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1964 and the Civil Rights Act of 1965. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 287
Categorization
- DEFINE: Names the canonical color-blind progress story that arguments about the value gap must contend with.
- XREF: connects to: Color-blind rhetoric shifted blame for disparities onto Black culture — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1290; Colorblind ideology presents the ability to forget race as progress. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 15; White Americans hold an optimistic racial-progress narrative that resists counterexamples. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1367 (+12 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Color-blind rhetoric shifted blame for disparities onto Black culture — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1290; Colorblind ideology presents the ability to forget race as progress. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 15; White Americans hold an optimistic racial-progress narrative that resists counterexamples. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 1367 (+12 more)
Broader Connections
- The belief in inevitable racial progress is an ideology obscuring racist reality
#expands(0.92) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1246 - Declaring color-blindness cannot undo entrenched racialized inequality
#complicates(0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1840 - Formal civil rights gains can mask persistent structural racial disadvantage.
#complicates(0.80) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 14 - Color-blind policies still operate in an historically racialized American society.
#complicates(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1837