"Color-Blind" Racism

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 579
Author(s):  
Ashley W. Doane ◽  
Leslie G. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Color Blind Racism ◽  
Color Blind

scholarly journals Color-Blind Racism in Pandemic Times

2020 ◽  
pp. 233264922094102
Author(s):  
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Color Blindness ◽  
Differential Mortality ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Structural Nature ◽  
Color Blind Racism ◽  
Color Blind ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
Magazine Articles

In this article the author examines how the frameworks of color-blind racism have influenced many topics during the pandemic. Using readily available material from popular culture (TV shows, newspaper and magazine articles, and advertisements) and from statements by government officials, the author examines how color blindness has shaped our national discussion on essential workers and heroes, charity, and differential mortality. The main argument is that color-blind racism is limiting our understanding of the structural nature of the various racial problems coronavirus disease 2019 has revealed, making it difficult to envision the kinds of policies needed to address them. the author concludes by summarizing what these ideological perspectives block from view as well as addressing the nascent discursive cracks that might be used to produce alternative frames for interpreting matters and organizing collective action.

Numbers, Narratives, and Nation: Mainstream News Coverage of U.S. Latino Population Growth, 1990–2010

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 500-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Díaz McConnell
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
Policy Positions ◽  
Color Blind Racism ◽  
Color Blind ◽  
News Outlet

Ideologies that support racial domination and White supremacy remain foundational in U.S. society, even as the nation becomes increasingly diverse and progressively focused on quantitative measurement. This study explores how a prominent mainstream news outlet represents the growth of the nation’s second largest population, Latinos, within this changing demographic and numeric environment. Drawing from two frameworks, the Latino Threat Narrative and Color-Blind Racism, quantitative and qualitative analyses are conducted with 174 Los Angeles Times ( LAT) articles about 2000 and 2010 census results. Reporters for the LAT, located in the single most important U.S. location for Latinos, frame Latinos and their population dynamics in line with the overtly racist narrative of Latino threat and the covertly racist ideology of color-blind racism. Moreover, the analyses reveal that quantitative logics circulating in the present evaluative climate further the view that Latinos pose cultural-demographic threats to the nation. Quantification also enhances color-blind frames and rhetorical strategies justifying present-day racial stratification and the subordinate locations of non-White groups. This suggests how White supremacy retains its power as the populations and metrics of evaluation change. Finally, given recent research linking demographic trends and media representations with attitudes, policy positions, and political partisanship, these representations have implications for the well-being of Latinos, other populations, and the nation.

Spelling Otherness

2015 ◽  
pp. 35-62
Author(s):  
Sanjukta Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Model Minority ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Message Boards ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Indian Americans ◽  
Online Message Boards ◽  
Color Blind Racism ◽  
Color Blind ◽  
Media Reports

In the last 15 years, as many as 11 young Americans of Indian descent have won the Scripps National Spelling Bee. This pattern of one small community's dominance in academic competitions has been seen not just in the spelling bee but also in geography bees, math competitions, and science Olympiads. This has led mainstream media to resurrect the notion of the “Model Minority,” with Indian Americans becoming the new holders of this eponym. This chapter analyzes the discursive construction of Indian Americans as racial emblems in media reports and online message boards. Using Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's notion of “color-blind racism” and Edward Said's theory of Orientalism, the chapter discusses how these children have become exemplars of racial assimilation even as they are indelibly marked as “forever foreign,” and why Indian-Americans feel the compulsion to attempt to conquer “the master's tools.”

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