Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
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How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.Publishers WeeklyIn his follow-up to Between Barack and a Hard Place, Wise continues to explore his provocative contention that Obama’s commitment to transcending racism has made it “more difficult than ever to address ongoing racial bias” in America. By refusing to openly confront racism, Wise argues, the President has ceded the ground to conservatives, allowing them to “manipulate racial angers unmolested and unchecked.” While many progressives are disappointed that Obama has, in their view, capitulated to corporate interests and not forged his own New Deal, Wise makes the opposite charge. He believes that Obama is in fact too eager to follow FDR’s lead in subordinating racial issues to the fight against poverty. Obama’s endorsement of New Deal measures like social security, FHA home loan programs, and the G.I. Bill downplays the extent to which these programs were and continue to be “intensely racialized.” Wise also contends that the pervasiveness of racism has a subconscious effect on Americans that can only be altered by forcing the issue into the open. (July)
Preface 111 The Rise and Triumph of Post-Racial Liberalism 27Colorblind Universalism and Public Policy 30Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Racial Transcendence 362 The Trouble With Post-Racial Liberalism 63The Reality of Racial Disparities 64Race-Based Injury, Inherited Disadvantage and Ongoing Discrimination 70Dispensing With Victim-Blaming: The Inadequacy of Culture-of-Poverty Thinking 126How Colorblindness Can Make Racism Worse 132Talking Class, Hearing Race: Why Post-Racial Liberalism Fails on Its Own Terms 1403 Illuminated Individualism: A Paradigm for Progressive Color-Consciousness 153Illuminated Individualism as a Key to Fairness and Equity 157Illuminated Individualism in Practice 169Notes 195About the Author 214
