"Colorblind" Racism / Edition 1

by Leslie G. Carr

Overview

Many of the vestiges of the Civil Rights movement in the United States, including initiatives such as affirmative action, are increasingly under attack by those who assert that the Constitution is explicitly ‘colourblind'. In this provocative and timely book, Leslie G Carr suggests that the Constitution can be read as ‘racist' and that the concept of ‘colourblindness' is in fact the latest in a series of racist ideologies that have been part of the fabric of the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761904434
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/19/1997
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Theories of Ideology
Christianity, the Constitution and Slavery
Sharecropping and the Rise of Evolutionary ‘Racist' Ideology
National Self-Determination and the Consociational State
Prelude to ‘Integration'
Civil Rights and Civil Uprising
The Colorblind Reaction
Colorblindness
Illusions and Consequences