Colorblind racial ideology and neoliberalism are mutually dependent political projects

Evidence

The declining phase of the movement, brought about largely by racial reaction, has continued until today, achieving anew racial hegemony based upon the concept of colorblindness. In Chapter 8 — Colorblindness, Neoliberalism, and Obama, we argue that colorblind racial ideology underwrites the neoliberal accumulation project in the United States, and that neither colorblindness nor neoliberalism would be politically feasible without the other. We also consider the deep contradictions between colorblindness and raceconsciousness as both ideology and practice. “Painting the White House Black” under Obama, it turns out, deeply heightened the tensions of colorblind hegemony, even though Obama tried hard to minimize the antiracist commitments that were always at least implicit in his presidency. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 31

Categorization

• XREF: Anchor for existing race-theory claims; links racial reaction since the 1970s to the colorblind/neoliberal project. — connects to: Neoliberal urban governance produces racially differentiated poverty through market mechanisms — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 5