Color-blind ideology masks ongoing discrimination while appearing egalitarian

Evidence

The structures, institutional practices, ideologies, and images of racialization interact in ways that shape one another. For example, discrimination causes poverty and material hardship and media institutions routinely employ images of people of color in poverty and on welfare dependency. Businesses move to locations to maximize profits, locations difficult for people of color to access. Similarly, communities of color continue to be the subject of degradation and vilification in images disseminated by politicians, press, and television, and through literature and popular culture so that “white” people fear and despise them and some people of color are suspicious, distrustful, resentful, or fearful of one another. The psychological consequences are immense. At the same time, ideologies of “color blindness” create the appearance of equality and fairness, while hiding practices of discrimination, and hostile intentions. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1850

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s Racism Without Racists on color-blind racism as the contemporary dominant ideology — worth cross-referencing. — connects to: Diversity scholarship naturalises plurality and hides how racial distinctions are made — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 28; Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 129; Official colorblindness lets familiar-partner privilege continue unchecked as exclusion — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1621 (+11 more)