Official colorblindness lets familiar-partner privilege continue unchecked as exclusion

Evidence

Biko’s Black Consciousness nevertheless characterized nonracialism as a “white politics,” an empty universalism that placed racial strategizing and organizing off limits to antiracist resistance, thus limiting its effective reach and range. Nonracialism in this sense offers the perfect conceptual partner for a neoliberal politics bent on delimiting state power and empowering the interests of privately preferred partnerships and projects, where the already familiar are the trusted and tried, if passing only the loyalty test. Race continues to exert social effect, even where the category is placed under official erasure. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1621

Categorization

• XREF: Core evidence for the reader’s thesis: an explicitly-threatened figure (Biko) showing how a privileged group’s anti-racism formalism preserves de facto advantage — a ‘threatened-privilege’ dynamic operating through the group that benefits from erasure. — connects to: Colorblind measures reinforce existing racial privilege despite egalitarian intent — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 117; Forcing colorblindness or identity forsaking backfires and worsens intergroup relations — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 577; Colorblind equal treatment perpetuates rather than ends racial hierarchy — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1072 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form. #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 129
• Colorblind measures reinforce existing racial privilege despite egalitarian intent #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 117
• Colorblind equal treatment perpetuates rather than ends racial hierarchy #corroborates (0.90) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1072
• Color-blind ideology masks ongoing discrimination while appearing egalitarian #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1850
• Declaring color-blindness cannot undo entrenched racialized inequality #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1840
• Color-blindness rhetoric was used to preserve white privilege #corroborates (0.85)
• Refusing to count by race masks ongoing structural racial restriction #corroborates (0.80)
• Privacy law enabled racial privilege to persist while formally denying it #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 82
• Colorblind mestizaje narratives re-suppress already marginalized racial subjects #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1840
• Forcing colorblindness or identity forsaking backfires and worsens intergroup relations #expands (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 577
• Antiracial colorblindness erases the very vocabulary needed to press racial claims #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 122