{"id":114,"date":"2015-10-05T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=114"},"modified":"2015-10-04T08:56:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T08:56:48","slug":"color-blindness-is-counterproductive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/10\/05\/color-blindness-is-counterproductive\/","title":{"rendered":"Color-Blindness Is Counterproductive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/assets\/media\/img\/mt\/2015\/09\/AP_280523377747\/lead_960.jpg?1442010304\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Many sociologists argue that ideologies claiming not to see race risk ignoring discrimination.<\/h3>\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\">&#8220;There are more than a few members of the \u201cacademic left\u201d who argue that colorblindness is problematic precisely because it offers a way to avoid addressing social problems.&#8221;<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\">\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\"><\/aside>\n<aside class=\"pullquote instapaper_ignore\">&#8220;In most social interactions, whites get to be seen as individuals. Racial minorities become aware from a young age that people will often judge them as members of their group.&#8221;<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/09\/color-blindness-is-counterproductive\/405037\/\">Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many sociologists argue that ideologies claiming not to see race risk ignoring discrimination. &#8220;There are more than a few members of the \u201cacademic left\u201d who argue that colorblindness is problematic precisely because it offers a way to avoid addressing social problems.&#8221; &#8220;In most social interactions, whites get to be seen as individuals. Racial minorities become &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/10\/05\/color-blindness-is-counterproductive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Color-Blindness Is Counterproductive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19,21,66,46,55,57,4,31,51,17,58,37,68,38],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-african-americans","tag-american-history","tag-color-blindness","tag-culture","tag-minorities","tag-poc","tag-race","tag-racial-inequality","tag-racism","tag-reparations","tag-reverse-racism","tag-social-construct","tag-sociology","tag-white-privilege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}