Colorblind measures reinforce existing racial privilege despite egalitarian intent

Evidence

Yet the accommodating compromises in the name of national reconciliation signaled both by colorblindness in the US and racial democracy in Brazil (and Latin America more broadly) exactly privileged, and in privileging reinforced, the relatively powerful and already privileged at the expense of the traditionally excluded. In short, they reinscribed a refurbished whiteness as the privileged, powerful, and propertied to the ongoing exclusions of those considered or classified not white. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 117

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s kept claim that ‘exposure to opposing political views often increases rather than reduces polarization’ — well-meant equalizing interventions can entrench the order they target. — connects to: 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; Colorblind mestizaje narratives re-suppress already marginalized racial subjects — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1840 (+5 more)

Related

• Color-blind ideology masks ongoing discrimination while appearing egalitarian (similarity 0.85)
• Official colorblindness lets familiar-partner privilege continue unchecked as exclusion (similarity 0.85)
• Colorblind mestizaje narratives re-suppress already marginalized racial subjects (similarity 0.84)
• Standard accounts of Brazilian color-flexibility presuppose fixed racial reference (similarity 0.84)
• Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form. (similarity 0.82)
• Declaring color-blindness cannot undo entrenched racialized inequality (similarity 0.82)
• Color-blind policies still operate in an historically racialized American society. (similarity 0.82)
• Color blindness functions to re-anonymize racial rule after anti-racist exposure (similarity 0.81)
• Colorblindness ideology rearticulated civil rights gains into a new racism (similarity 0.80)
• Race-blindness works because racial order is already fully routinized (similarity 0.80)
• Color-blindness replaced explicit white supremacy as racism’s new justification (similarity 0.80)
• Colorblind ideology works only because it partly reflects real post-civil-rights gains (similarity 0.79)
• Colorblindness and neoliberalism rose together as mutually reinforcing hegemonies (similarity 0.79)
• Contemporary racial inequality persists without explicit racist laws or intentions (similarity 0.79)
• Racelessness forms differ in their founding motives and effects (similarity 0.79)