Description Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy.
George Lipsitz is Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara..
Daniel Martinez Ho Sang is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University.
Luke Charles Harris is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vassar College.
About the Author Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is Professor of Law at University of California, Lost Angeles, and Columbia University.
It shows how Colorblindness compromises the capacity of Disciplines to effectively respond to the wide set of contemporary political, economic, and social crises marking public life today.
Examining the racial histories and Colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicology, literary studies, sociology, and gender studies, Seeing Race Again documents the profoundly contradictory role of the academy in constructing, naturalizing, and reproducing racial hierarchy.
This book challenges scholars and students to see Race again.
Scholars mounted insurgent efforts to discredit some of the most odious intellectual defenses of white supremacy in academia, but the Disciplines and their keepers remained unwilling to interrogate many of the racist foundations of their fields, instead embracing a framework of racial Colorblindness as their default position.
By the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice.
Woodson, and others.
Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G.
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In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W.
Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines\' research and teaching paradigms.
Description Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy
