2. The Sounds of Silence: How Race Neutrality Preserves White Supremacy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments: Praying to the Disciplinary Gods with One Eye Open ix
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE: MASKS
6. 2. The Sounds of Silence: How Race Neutrality Preserves White Supremacy 23
7. 3. Unmasking Colorblindness in the Law: Lessons from the Formation of Critical Race Theory 52
8. 4. Masking Legitimized Racism: Indigeneity, Colorblindness, and the Sociology of Race 85
9. 5. On the Transportability, Malleability, and Longevity of Colorblindness: Reproducing White Supremacy in Brazil and South Africa 105
10. 6. How Colorblindness Flourished in the Age of Obama 128
11. PART TWO: MOVES
12. 7. The Possessive Investment in Classical Music: Confronting Legacies of White Supremacy in U.S. Schools and Departments of Music 155
13. 8. Powerblind Intersectionality: Feminist Revanchism and Inclusion as a One-Way Street 175
14. 9. Colorblind Intersectionality 200
15. 10. Causality, Context, and Colorblindness: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Politics of Racist Disavowal 224
16. 11. Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of “Preferential Treatment” 246
17. PART THREE: RESISTANCE AND TRANSFORMATION
18. 12. They (Color) Blinded Me with Science: Counteracting Coloniality of Knowledge in Hegemonic Psychology 271
19. 13. Toward a New Research Agenda? Foucault, Whiteness, and Indigenous Sovereignty 293
20. 14. Why Black Lives Matter in the Humanities 307
21. 15. Negotiating Privileged Students’ Affective Resistances: Why a Pedagogy of Emotional Engagement Is Necessary 327
22. 16. Shifting Frames: Pedagogical Interventions in Colorblind Teaching Practice 352
23. List of Contributors 375
24. Index 379