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"Race" does not speak to most white people. Rather, whites tend to associate race with people of color and to equate whiteness with racelessness. As **Barbara J. Flagg** demonstrates in this important book, this "transparency" phenomenon--the invisibility of whiteness to white people-- profoundly affects the ways in whites make decisions: they rely on criteria perceived by the decisionmaker as race-neutral but which in fact reflect white, race-specific norms. Flagg here identifies this transparently white decisionmaking as a form of institutional racism that contributes significantly, though unobtrusively, to the maintenance of white supremacy. Bringing the discussion to bear on the arena of law, Flagg analyzes key areas of race discrimination law and makes the case for reforms that would bring legal doctrine into greater harmony with the recognition of institutional racism in general and the transparency phenomenon in particular. She concludes with an exploration of the meaning of whiteness in a pluralist culture, paving the way for a positive, nonracist conception of whiteness as a distinct racial identity. An informed and substantive call for doctrinal reform, **Was Blind But No

Who reads Was Blind, But Now I See : White Race Concsiousness and the Law?

Author

Barbara J. Flagg

Publisher

NYU Press, New York University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585030937

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law