Colorblind inclusion of Black authors is a covert form of tokenism

Evidence

This kind of tokenism is not multicultural transformation, but it is familiar to us as the change individuals are most likely to make. Let me give another example. What does it mean when a white female English professor is eager to include a work by Toni Morrison on the syllabus of her course but then teaches that work without ever making reference to race or ethnicity? I have heard individual white women “boast” about how they have shown students that black writers are “as good ” as the white male canon when they do not call attention to race. Clearly, such pedagogy is not an interrogation of the biases conventional canons (if not all canons) establish, but yet an other form of tokenism. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 85

Categorization

• SEED: Direct angle: colorblind pedagogy in the classroom as the liberal version of tokenism — inclusion without interrogation.
• XREF: connects to: Progressive multiculturalism does not aim to replace one canon with another; Asking the lone minority student to explain ethnic texts burden them unfairly — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 92; Publishing operates a racial economy of recognizable authorship — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 669 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Publishing operates a racial economy of recognizable authorship #expands (0.80) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 669
• Black celebrity intellectuals can become apologists for color-blind accommodation #exemplifies (0.75)