Enlightened sexism and post-race ideology similarly deny continued inequality

Evidence

What she terms “enlightened sexism” is the notion that American women have achieved full equality with men as the result of the feminist movement and therefore not only is feminism no longer needed, but advancing sexist stereotypes is seen as funny or harmless. Enlightened sexism has the potential to undo feminist progress in a similar way that post-race ideologies have the potential to overlook and deny continued racist practices. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 588

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Douglas’s ‘enlightened sexism’ — equality presumed achieved, so sexism reads as harmless humor.
• XREF: Parallels the book’s own earlier point about postrace imaginary and the reader’s interest in ideological denial mechanisms. — connects to: Cordial racism legitimizes inequality by refusing to name race as its cause