Color blindness functions to re-anonymize racial rule after anti-racist exposure

Evidence

Racelesssness, or color blindness as a particular expression, is the project to re-institute the relative invisibility, the anonymity, of racial rule in the wake of its postcolonial and globalizing excavation (Goldberg, 2001: ch. 8). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1728

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines color blindness functionally as re-instating invisibility of racial rule — a definitional anchor for vault anti-racism critique sections.
• XREF: Connects to vault-wide treatments of color blindness in CRT and how ‘ideological denial’ is framed elsewhere in works on race and law. — connects to: Colorblind antiracialism gains force only after partial antiracist gains begin succeeding — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 123; Antiracist victories across three eras were each defused by formal legal colorblindness — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 127; Antiracial colorblindness erases the very vocabulary needed to press racial claims — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 122 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Colorblind measures reinforce existing racial privilege despite egalitarian intent #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 117
• Colorblind equal treatment perpetuates rather than ends racial hierarchy #corroborates (0.90) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1072
• Color-blind ideology masks ongoing discrimination while appearing egalitarian #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1850
• Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form. #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 129
• Antiracial colorblindness erases the very vocabulary needed to press racial claims #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 122
• Color-blindness rhetoric was used to preserve white privilege #corroborates (0.85)
• Color blindness claims deny systematic racism while erasing cultural difference. #corroborates (0.85) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1261
• Color-blind security practices racialize without any actor believing they are racist #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 576
• Color-blindness replaced explicit white supremacy as racism’s new justification #corroborates (0.80) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 299
• Declaring color-blindness cannot undo entrenched racialized inequality #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1840
• Color-blind rhetoric reframes discrimination claims as fabricated race-card plays. #exemplifies (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1204
• Color-blind policy would perpetuate racial segregation without affirmative dismantling #corroborates (0.80) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 342
• Color-blind rhetoric reframed race-specific remedies as the true racism #qualifies (0.75) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 302
• Race-blindness works because racial order is already fully routinized #qualifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 137