Seeing Race Again COUNTERING COLORBLINDNESS ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES Edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz Copyright © 2019. University of California Press. All rights reserved. of California Press. © 2019. University Copyright UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS <i>Seeing Race Again : Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines</i>, edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, University of California Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkeley-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5609526. Created from berkeley-ebooks on 2019-10-04 14:07:27. Copyright © 2019. University of California Press. All rights reserved. of California Press. © 2019. University Copyright <i>Seeing Race Again : Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines</i>, edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, University of California Press, 2019. 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University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Oakland, California © 2019 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Crenshaw, Kimberlé, editor. | Harris, Luke Charles, 1950– editor. | HoSang, Daniel, editor. | Lipsitz, George, editor. Title: Seeing race again : countering colorblindness across the disciplines / edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz. Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: lccn 2018035602 (print) | lccn 2018041744 (ebook) | isbn 9780520972148 (epub and ePDF) | isbn 9780520300972 (cloth : alk. paper) | isbn 9780520300996 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: Racism in higher education—United States. | Multicultural education—United States. | Post-racialism—United States. | Race discrimination—United States. | United States—Race relations. Classification: lcc lc212.42 (ebook) | lcc lc212.42 .s44 2019 (print) | ddc 344/.0798—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018035602 Manufactured in the United States of America 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 Copyright © 2019. University of California Press. All rights reserved. of California Press. © 2019. University Copyright 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 <i>Seeing Race Again : Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines</i>, edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, University of California Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkeley-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5609526. Created from berkeley-ebooks on 2019-10-04 14:07:27. CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments: Praying to the Disciplinary Gods with One Eye Open ix Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz 1 • Introduction 1 Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz P A R T O N E : MASKS 2 • The Sounds of Silence: How Race Neutrality Preserves White Supremacy 23 George Lipsitz 3 • Unmasking Colorblindness in the Law: Lessons from the Formation of Critical Race Theory 52 Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw 4 • Masking Legitimized Racism: Indigeneity, Colorblindness, and the Sociology of Race 85 Dwanna L. McKay 5 • On the Transportability, Malleability, and Longevity of Colorblindness: Reproducing White Supremacy in Brazil and South Africa 105 Copyright © 2019. University of California Press. All rights reserved. of California Press. © 2019. University Copyright Marzia Milazzo <i>Seeing Race Again : Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines</i>, edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, University of California Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkeley-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5609526. Created from berkeley-ebooks on 2019-10-04 14:07:27. 6 • How Colorblindness Flourished in the Age of Obama 128 Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw P A R T T W O : MOVES 7 • The Possessive Investment in Classical Music: Confronting Legacies of White Supremacy in U.S. Schools and Departments of Music 155 Loren Kajikawa 8 • Powerblind Intersectionality: Feminist Revanchism and Inclusion as a One-Way Street 175 Barbara Tomlinson 9 • Colorblind Intersectionality 200 Devon W. Carbado 10 • Causality, Context, and Colorblindness: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Politics of Racist Disavowal 224 Leah N. Gordon 11 • Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of “Preferential Treatment” 246 Luke Charles Harris and Uma Narayan P A R T T H R E E : RESISTANCE AND TRANSFORMATION 12 • They (Color) Blinded Me with Science: Counteracting Coloniality of Knowledge in Hegemonic Psychology 271 Glenn Adams and Phia S. Salter 13 • Toward a New Research Agenda? Foucault, Whiteness, and Indigenous Sovereignty 293 Aileen Moreton-Robinson 14 • Why Black Lives Matter in the Humanities 307 Felice Blake Copyright © 2019. University of California Press. All rights reserved. of California Press. © 2019. University Copyright <i>Seeing Race Again : Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines</i>, edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, University of California Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkeley-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5609526. Created from berkeley-ebooks on 2019-10-04 14:07:27. 15 • Negotiating Privileged Students’ Affective Resistances: Why a Pedagogy of Emotional Engagement Is Necessary 327 Paula Ioanide 16 • Shifting Frames: Pedagogical Interventions in Colorblind Teaching Practice 352 Milton Reynolds List of Contributors 375 Index 379 Copyright © 2019. University of California Press. All rights reserved. of California Press. © 2019. University Copyright <i>Seeing Race Again : Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines</i>, edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, University of California Press, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkeley-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5609526. Created from berkeley-ebooks on 2019-10-04 14:07:27. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS P RAYI NG TO T H E D I SC I PL I NAR Y G ODS W I T H O NE E Y E O PEN This volume is the culmination of more than a decade of shared inquiry involving dozens of scholars investigating the origins, evolution, and conse- quences of racial colorblindness as a metaphor for social relations across the academic disciplines. Its genealogy, however, reaches beyond the academy both to the Civil Rights Movement, which briefly shook the foundations of American social life, and to the demobilizing campaigns within the legal and political arena to restabilize the American social order in its aftermath. Anchoring the slowed pace of race reform in the 1980s, and the dismantling of the civil rights infrastructure throughout the 1990s, colorblind rhetoric crossed over into popular culture to provide ideological cover for ballot ini- tiatives and other efforts to neutralize affirmative action and other antisub- ordination measures. Despite its solidly conservative deployment in the post–civil rights era, colorblindness received an unexpected rebranding in 2008 as the ideological standard-bearer for the country’s postracial future. This was a remarkable ride for a concept that defied definition, measurement, or theorization. Indeed, the work that colorblindness does across so many sectors and issues is stunning given the utter lack of consensus as to what it really is. Unanswered