Race does not speak to most white people. Rather, whites tend to associate race with people of color and to equate whiteness with racelessness. As Barbara J. Flagg demonstrates in this important book, this 'transparency’ phenomenon—the invisibility of whiteness to white people—profoundly affects the ways in whites make decisions: they rely on criteria perceived by the decision maker as race-neutral but which in fact reflect white, race-specific norms.
Flagg here identifies this transparently white decision making as a form of institutional racism that contributes significantly, though unobtrusively, to the maintenance of white supremacy. Bringing the discussion to bear on the arena of law, Flagg analyzes key areas of race discrimination law and makes the case for reforms that would bring legal doctrine into greater harmony with the recognition of institutional racism in general and the transparency phenomenon in particular. She concludes with an exploration of the meaning of whiteness in a pluralist culture, paving the way for a positive, nonracist conception of whiteness as a distinct racial identity.
An informed and substantive call for doctrinal reform, Was Blind But Now I See is the most expansive treatment yet of the relationship between whiteness and law.
Barbara J. Flagg
Was Blind, But Now I See
White Race Concsiousness and the Law
Was Blind, But Now I See
White Race Concsiousness and the Law
Język Angielski ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780814728062 ● Rozmiar pliku 1.8 MB ● Wydawca NYU Press ● Kraj US ● Opublikowany 1997 ● Do pobrania 24 miesięcy ● Waluta EUR ● ID 5479842 ● Ochrona przed kopiowaniem Adobe DRM
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