Rejecting the Myth of Colorblindness in Education

colorblind practices can be inequitable. I then draw on normative principles from social theory to defend

When speaking of the ideal society, a common utopian theme is often described: the perfect world would be blind to differences like class, educational level, religion, sexuality, gender identity, and race, yet encouraging of uniqueness and individuality. When speaking in terms of race, this seemingly perfect utopian concept is called colorblindness and actually exacerbates racist attitudes and social systems. Within this ideal there is a stark ideological contradiction in which race, one of the things that bonds people to one another, to their cultures and places of origin, is not allowed to be a factor in individuality—racial identity

An individualistic, non-discriminatory approach being progressive is what makes colorblindness a dangerous and destructive concept, because it ignores the problem, therefore, the attempt at a solution to systematic and collective racism. In this paper, I will identify the flaws in both racist imitation of colorblindness and the concept and execution of colorblindness itself. The purpose will be to signify the importance of

Findings. Our findings fall into three main emergent categories. First, those leaders who demonstrate a colorblind perspective do so in varied ways. The variation is characterized by a version of what Bonilla-Silva refers to as minimization. According to Bonilla-Silva, the issue of

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).

In this course, a few weeks back we learned about the term colorblind and its relation with racism and society. When reading about the trend on those who deny racial discrimination against those of color I instantly think of this term. Colorblindness is basically suggesting that the best way to end discrimination is by treating individuals as equally as possible, without regard to race, culture, or ethnicity. However, most minorities that encounter everyday difficulties due to their race view colorblindness

In this Speech, Melody Hobson claimed that encouraging color blind for race is a dangerous thing, instead of being color blind for race, we need to be color brave. People think race is an uncomfortable topic, and for most of time, people tend to ignore this topic. In her opinion, this is not the right way to solve the problem, she argued that the smartest way to solve the discrimination and prejudice caused by race is to talk about it and face it directly with courage and understanding, rather than ignoring it. She believed greater diversity will help make our products, businesses and science researches better. In addition, what we can do is to be color brave, which means we should observe our environment at work places, schools, and invite

When most of the whites demand to be color-blind then how this salient racial inequality still occurs. In this reference author Silva stated, “For contemporary racial inequality that exculpate them from any responsibility for the status of people of color. These explanations emanate from new racial ideology that I label color-blind racism.” Color-blind racism became the dominant racial ideology as the mechanisms and practices for keeping blacks and other racial minorities ‘‘at the bottom of the well” changed. Author Bonilla-Silva did surveys about race on some White Americans, who were mostly born before 80’s.

Once the civil rights movement surfaced, the idea of racial color-blindness surfaced to dictate society’s mindset. Self-proclaimed advocates for equality incorporate an ethic of color-blindness, while ignoring ancestral variances inherent among groups of people. Color-blindness attempts to equalize all races, but that process erases the historical and cultural context of different races to integrate them into the ideology of whiteness. Due to the cultural and historical differences, not all individuals accept this societal paradigm and thus they are marginalized. The problem remains fixed in the white body that organizes

In Colorblind Ideology is a Form of Racism, it was discussed on how color blindness needs to be shifted towards a more positive ideology, that being multiculturalism (Williams, 2011). Instead of pretending to not see race or culture of others, multiculturalism celebrates different cultures. I like this ideology much better than color blindness. Instead of trying to deny race and culture, multiculturalism celebrates what makes everyone different, it teaches everyone to recognize and value each culture. It also doesn’t deny what racial conflicts or awful things occurred in the past, it doesn’t try to sweep it under the rug and pretend it was something that never occurred (Williams, 2011). I think by being open about past events, or conflicts

Prejudice and hatred are usually thought to be things read in textbooks that were eradicated during wars where the losing party was all racists and they were forced to change. It is easy to say that hatred does not exist today, but carrying prejudices deep within oneself is more common than many people realize. Hate is an unfortunately perpetual aspect of the human experience. It is ingrained into our species blueprint that we find someone to look down upon - be it Muslim people by the political ‘far right’, criminals during the 1990’s “Tough on Crime” era, or even a fictional species called Zygons in Doctor Who. The justification behind the hatred may exist, but it has been overstated to a large magnitude, as in most cases it is only a

Hatred seemingly defined in many ways; some use the word hate to explain their distaste for food or something happening in the world while others, merely unable to control their inner emotions act out in heinous fashion. Ultimately arising from fear or misunderstanding hatred left unchecked, unfortunately, becomes a crippling emotion. Often paralyzed by their fear, people find it necessary to rally others to take up their cause of hate. Consequently, our world is laden with discrimination, like a cancer spreading working to consume every inch of our being, each day hatred, works towards destroying our souls.

The article is about color blindness the author talks about three rules that drive colorblindness. He first mentioned that race is all about skin color which he explains that race is about the skin pigmentation that one has, the second rule is that race is about unscientific notions of racial biology and third rule is that racism is personal problem. The article talks about how in-order for us to overcome racism we must read and be better informed about racial groups which is something we have discussed in class about New Jim Crow BY Alexandra Michelle where she talk about mass incarceration, if we all stayed informed then people of color wouldn’t be the primary targets of going to prison. This article is connect to our course because it gives

The media have been a major obstruction to society’s efforts to create a ‘colorblind society’. The

Recently in American history, there has been an ongoing debate regarding non-whites ability to achieve the “American Dream” as easily as their white counterparts. Some people believe that this form of racism has died and supported their claim by citing famous people of color such as Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama. Their argument stems from the success of one percent of the population and fails to take into account the other ninety-nine percent of the population that suffers from racial injustices. This form of colorblindness originates from parts of America that either doesn't have frequent contact with people of color or aren’t one of those targeted races. For example, an Italian girl in a white community might come in contact with someone of color once every other week. She wouldn’t be able to make an accurate personal statement about current race wars because she doesn’t interact with other races enough to know their situation. Generally, this blindness convinces citizens that America is no longer racist and minorities are holding grudges about past historical events. In so-called “post-racial America”, citizens of color are experiencing harassment and discrimination, which ultimately prompts citizens involvement in hateful race movements.