Color-blind respectability politics marginalized open segregationists
Evidence
The nearly complete marginalization of open segregationist sentiment owed much to the public sphere constructed by the Charlotte Observer but also to the politics of color-blind respectability embraced by white-collar CPA leaders who banished racial extremists to the fringes of the antibusing movement. The local and national critics who charged that all antibusing families were simply segregationists misunderstood the spatial interplay between race and class among the many white parents who accepted one-way Lassiter / “COLOR-BLIND” CONSERVATISM 573 at UCSF LIBRARY & CKM on March 14, 2015 juh. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 95
Categorization
- XREF: This shows a concrete mechanism of how a rationalizing ideology had to rebrand — bears directly on the reading purpose about segregation retreating into color-blind individualism. — connects to: Color-blind ideology masks ongoing discrimination while appearing egalitarian — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1850; Respectability politics deferred to segregation in practice but never in principle — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 886; Color-blind language like ‘community integrity’ could package segregation acceptably — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 189 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Color-blind ideology masks ongoing discrimination while appearing egalitarian
#expands(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1850 - Color-blind language like ‘community integrity’ could package segregation acceptably
#exemplifies(0.82) — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight, 189 - Respectability politics deferred to segregation in practice but never in principle
#qualifies(0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 886 - Modern conservatism abandoned explicit white supremacy for color-blind individualism
#corroborates(0.75) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 299