Main Point
The ideology of color blindness suggests that society is far from advancing in equality and that people are not seeing the cultural, institutional, and organizational discrimination. People who believe the colorblind ideology, are not aware of the systematic racism that exist in society. These people are in position to knowingly or unknowingly support racial hierarchies and power dynamics.
Concepts and Ideas
Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres of breaks down what constitutes as colorblindness in three rules: Race revolves around skin color, beyond that, it holds no weight in determining someone’s social status, history, or power. Because race is considered based on skin color, it relies on physical identity or ancestor, know as formal or biological race. This perspective disregards hierarchies associated with …show more content…
People who are “colorblind” cannot change or fix the system because colorblindness ignores the racism that deals with social structures. These individuals can only perpetuate racism that already exists. If the perspective of the colorblind defines racism as a problem of individual race relation and assumes individuals can erase racism by learning about races other than their own. It does not however, address instructional racism.
Economic inequality between blacks and whites: How race is linked to economic discrimination?
Black that earn fifty thousand or more net worth is less than one-half of their white counterparts
The median net worth of whites is 12 times that of blacks.
Even for the lowest earners, the white family has ten thousand dollars of equity, while the median black family has no assets
The current standings of the economic system create these large to walls to the success of blacks, their social mobility, accumulation and the transmission of wealth.
Possible Interview
The ideology of color blindness suggests that society is far from advancing in equality and that people are not seeing the cultural, institutional, and organizational discrimination. People who believe the colorblind ideology, are not aware of the systematic racism that exist in society. These people are in position to knowingly or unknowingly support racial hierarchies and power dynamics.
Concepts and Ideas
Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres of breaks down what constitutes as colorblindness in three rules: Race revolves around skin color, beyond that, it holds no weight in determining someone’s social status, history, or power. Because race is considered based on skin color, it relies on physical identity or ancestor, know as formal or biological race. This perspective disregards hierarchies associated with …show more content…
People who are “colorblind” cannot change or fix the system because colorblindness ignores the racism that deals with social structures. These individuals can only perpetuate racism that already exists. If the perspective of the colorblind defines racism as a problem of individual race relation and assumes individuals can erase racism by learning about races other than their own. It does not however, address instructional racism.
Economic inequality between blacks and whites: How race is linked to economic discrimination?
Black that earn fifty thousand or more net worth is less than one-half of their white counterparts
The median net worth of whites is 12 times that of blacks.
Even for the lowest earners, the white family has ten thousand dollars of equity, while the median black family has no assets
The current standings of the economic system create these large to walls to the success of blacks, their social mobility, accumulation and the transmission of wealth.
Possible Interview