Perspectives on Diversity

When trying to understand the concept of color blindness we first need to understand what the term means. It is a set of beliefs in which white individuals judge non-white individuals as if they were treated equally ignoring past racism (Scott p. 77). Individuals who use color blindness do so through four central frames usually used together. The four frames are abstract liberalism, naturalization, cultural racism, and minimization of racism. To understand how the four frames are sometimes used together we need to understand their meaning.

Bonilla-Silva also discusses the style of color-blindness. He asserts that due to the change in post-Civil Rights era thoughts on discrimination, whites had to change

Colorblindness is a defect in the perception of colors, caused by a deficiency in specialized cells in the retina that are sensitive to different colors. The term is often used today during political discourse, often by members of some factions of liberalism, when claiming that one’s race should be irrelevant to any decision making process. It is a form of moral posturing; that one should see an individual as simply an individual, but not as part of any larger group or culture. As if this philosophy will enable us to bridge any gaps between races, this thought attempts to focus on how we are all the same, rather than how we differ. Teachers and administrators are required to complete coursework pertaining to multicultural education

Race has been an issue in North America for many years. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva discusses the new racism in his book, Racism without Racists. Bonilla-Silva classifies the new racial discrimination as color blind racism. Color blind racism is then structured under four frames (26). Color blind racism is believed to have lead to the segregation of the white race from other minorities called white habitus. Color blind racism and white habitus has affected many people, whom don’t even realize that they are, have been or will be affected.

With the discovery of the New World in 1492, came the English in hopes of starting again in a new land. Through violence and other vile tactics, the English were able to remove most of the natives from the land and start creating their new societies. While this rebuilding occurred, the English split into two distinctive groups known as The Chesapeake and New England. In documents from both colonies, set in the 1600’s, we will examine how the same group of people can have completely different social characteristics, economics, and religion.

When discussing race, having the right intention is not nearly enough to ensure progress in racial tensions; as such, only positive, tangible action can be the catalyst for change in race discourse. This general rule can help when looking at the concept of colorblindness as a supposedly well-meaning myth, which realistically only serves to continue racist attitudes and systems. Using a critical lens to determine the harm caused by colorblindness can diminish the impact and eventually eradicate a source of racist microagressions. Patricia Williams explores the inherently harmful idea of colorblindness in her book Seeing a Colorblind Future: The Paradox of Race, through exemplary anecdotal evidence. This paper aims to analyze one such anecdote to fully explain the pervasive and malicious way colorblindness is employed in everyday life.

Many people in the United States society believe that people of all cultures, races, and ethnicities are now on an even playing field. People with this belief support their logic with the argument that since equal rights for people of color and women have been required by law for some time now, we are all inherently as equal as claimed in the Declaration of Independence. Many believe that race is no longer an issue, a viewpoint frequently referred to as color-blindness. National polling data indicated that a majority of whites now believe discrimination against racial minorities no longer exists. (Gallagher, 96) Color-blindness allows a white person to define himself or herself as politically and racially tolerant and then proclaim their

Colorism can be defined by a practice of discrimination by which those with lighter skin

It has been a common assumption that the moral character of an individual is linked to their race. Consequently, this has been a major propagator of racism. Furthermore, this has been spread people who the author refers to as “dog whistle politicians” who think that the whites have to succeed because they have the values, work ethics, and orientations required for success. According to Lopez, using colorblindness as a means of looking beyond the skin color of an individual would be helpful in dealing with racism as a whole. Colorblindness has a great role in fighting the establishment of racial policies and in dealing with dog whistle themes. Some of the chief advocates of colorblindness such as Martin Luther King, ending segregation were not the only drive in fighting for civil rights, but also changing the common mindset of linking some races with misery. (82) In recent times, a lot has been done to try and fight the racial stereotyping “deep connection between race and disadvantage” although some gains have been achieved, the author states that a lot has to be done yet.

challenges colorblindness as it pertains to racism. Bonilla-Silva argues that colorblindness allows whites to “enunciate positions that safeguard their racial interests without sounding ‘racist,’” only furthering racism (4). Written with extremely educated language and making many historical references to support

As both the documentary and the article convey, the modern concept of being blind to race is not a logical perspective when opposing racial discrimination. In White People, the idea of racial “colorblindness” was described as “not seeing race,” and subsequently being of the opinion that would be “society would be better off if we never acknowledged race” (White People). In the article “What Is Race?” the colorblind stance “appears, on the surface, to be neither positive nor negative” (Moya & Markus 170). However, both media ultimately refer to racial colorblindness as dismissive of modern racism. As a result of the presented facts from both media, I believe that colorblindness

In the film “White Like Me”, Tim Wise expresses that white privilege affects those people who have advantages from the privilege and the ones who suffer as a result. The film constantly conveys instances where society continuously expresses racial bias and as a result has entered into a period of color blindness. Color blindness can be defined as white people attempting to reject racism, and continue to remain oblivious to society’s racial inequality and white privilege. Most white people are ignorant, being that they believe black people are treated equally to them. They constantly bring up facts about post slavery and freedom, but are blind to the white superiority in our society.

Colorblind ideology is a covert form of racism that emerged as a racial ideology in the late 1960s concomitantly with the formation of the new racism as America’s new racial structure. Colorblind Ideology operates in four mainframes, Abstract Liberalism, Naturalization Cultural racism, and Minimization of racism. These four frames are plaguing the quality of the nation’s education. Colorblind ideology, at face value, is the belief that acknowledging a person's race is synonymous with being racist. In other words, Peoples of Color’s races are being ignored and disregarded because evidently, the only way some white can’t be racist is for race not to exist at all. This makes sense when

Color-blindness or race blindness refers to the degree to which nations discriminate the minorities (generally the Black) from their local citizens. A color-blind society does not make such discriminations and treats all the individuals equally irrespective of their color, race, ethnicity, or nationality (Morrison, Plaut, & Ybarra, 2010). Color-blindness is one of the major issues the World has been facing since Globalization has evolved into every aspect of life. Since I have grown up, I have observed that the United States citizens do not have strong color-blind societal beliefs; they consider the people from other nations and races as inferior. This thing has created big cultural differences in whatever these minorities act, participate, or perform while they are in the United States (Cassano & Buono, 2010).

We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything. You have yours and you control yours; we have ours and we control ours.” -Malcolm