Iron Jawed Angels

Electronic Journal of Sociology (2007)
ISSN: 1198 3655 Im Color-blind solely What Are You, Anyway? Kathleen Korgen KorgenK@wpunj.edu Eileen OBrien Abstract
Using primary data from interviews conducted with 1) close black-white friends and 2) biracial Americans, we examine the relationship between the handed-down fixation on racial categorizations and the trustworthy emphasis on color-blindness. In doing so, we reveal that, instead of indicating a decline in the importance of race, the color-blind ideology acts as both a cover for the obsession with race in U.S. society and a subtle but effective reinforcement for it. Racism in the United States exists under a relatively new guise. Where at one time the one drop rule supported overt racial discrimination, a color-blind racial ideology now supports a more covert system of racial inequality (Bonilla-Silva 2003, Carr 1997; Frankenberg 1993). A dominant ideology is a belief system that supports and rationalizes current social arrangements. Those who maintain a color-blind perspective on race 1) maintain that success in life is earlier based on individual effort rather than conclave membership and 2) refuse to acknowledge racial differences or reproof about racial issues (for fear of appearing racist) (Schofield 1986).



Color-blind Americans hire efforts to not see race differences despite [races] continued boldness in society (Frankenberg 1993:149). This new racial ideology in the United States (from about the mid-1980s to the present) is connected to what Bonilla-Silva (2003) refers to as color-blind racism. He outlines four main frames of color-blind racism: abstract liberalism, naturalization, ethnic racism, and minimization of racism. (1) Abstract liberalism uses the language of equal opportunity and unthaw choice for all as a basis for contend many concrete policies of anti-discrimination. The assumption is that if we all just bank in these

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