Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines

Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines

by George Lipsitz (Author), Daniel Martinez Hosang (Author), Luke Charles Harris (Author), Luke Charles Harris (Author), George Lipsitz (Author), Daniel Martinez Hosang (Author), Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (Author), George Lipsitz (Author)

Synopsis

Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines' research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others, and by the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice. Insurgency discredited some of the most odious intellectual defenses of white supremacy, but the disciplines and their keepers remained unwilling to interrogate many of the racist foundations of their fields in favor of racial colorblindness.

This book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicology, literary studies, sociology, and gender studies, Seeing Race Again documents the profoundly contradictory role of the academy in constructing, naturalizing, and reproducing racial hierarchy. It shows how colorblindness compromises the capacity of disciplines to effectively respond to the wide set of contemporary political, economic, and social crises marking public life today.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 430
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 05 Feb 2019

ISBN 10: 0520300998
ISBN 13: 9780520300996

Author Bio
Kimberl Williams Crenshaw is Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia University.

Luke Charles Harris is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vassar College.

Daniel Martinez HoSang is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University.

George Lipsitz is Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.