Diverse candidate pools shield colorblind picks that favor white men

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Top marketing influencers skew overwhelmingly male and white — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 486; Color-blind ideology masks ongoing discrimination while appearing egalitarian — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1850; Whites discriminate most when bias can be excused by nonracial factors like bystander presence — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2169 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Colorblind measures reinforce existing racial privilege despite egalitarian intent #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 117