White Balance // How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights
• Justin Gomer • ISBN 9781469655802
White Balance // How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights
• Justin Gomer • ISBN-13 9781469655802
ISBN-10 1469655802 • 2020
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The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history. In 1963, Martin Luther King famously stated, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." However, in the decades after the civil rights movement, the ideology of colorblindness co-opted the language of the civil rights era in order to reinvent white supremacy, fuel the rise of neoliberalism, and dismantle the civil rights…
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