Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments: Praying to the Disciplinary Gods with One Eye Open
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz

1 • Introduction
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz

PART ONE :
MASKS

2 • The Sounds of Silence: How Race Neutrality Preserves White Supremacy
George Lipsitz

3 • Unmasking Colorblindness in the Law: Lessons from the Formation of Critical Race Theory
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

4 • Masking Legitimized Racism: Indigeneity, Colorblindness, and the Sociology of Race
Dwanna L. McKay

5 • On the Transportability, Malleability, and Longevity of Colorblindness: Reproducing White Supremacy in Brazil and South Africa
Marzia Milazzo

6 • How Colorblindness Flourished in the Age of Obama
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

PART TWO :
MOVES

7 • The Possessive Investment in Classical Music: Confronting Legacies of White Supremacy in U.S. Schools and Departments of Music
Loren Kajikawa

8 • Powerblind Intersectionality: Feminist Revanchism and Inclusion as a One-Way Street
Barbara Tomlinson

9 • Colorblind Intersectionality
Devon W. Carbado

10 • Causality, Context, and Colorblindness: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Politics of Racist Disavowal
Leah N. Gordon

11 • Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of “Preferential Treatment”
Luke Charles Harris and Uma Narayan

PART THREE :
RESISTANCE AND TRANSFORMATION

12 • They (Color) Blinded Me with Science: Counteracting Coloniality of Knowledge in Hegemonic Psychology
Glenn Adams and Phia S. Salter

13 • Toward a New Research Agenda? Foucault, Whiteness, and Indigenous Sovereignty
Aileen Moreton-Robinson

14 • Why Black Lives Matter in the Humanities
Felice Blake

15 • Negotiating Privileged Students’ Affective Resistances: Why a Pedagogy of Emotional Engagement Is Necessary
Paula Ioanide

16 • Shifting Frames: Pedagogical Interventions in Colorblind Teaching Practice
Milton Reynolds

List of Contributors
Index

About the Author

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is Professor of Law at University of California, Los Angeles, and Columbia University.
 
Luke Charles Harris is Associate Professor of Political Science at Vassar College.
 
Daniel Martinez HoSang is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University.
 
George Lipsitz is Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
 

Reviews

"Edited by some of the leading race studies scholars—Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz—this collection of essays clearly outlines how the history of contemporary knowledge production and scholarship has a foundation in racially biased disciplinary frameworks, research methodologies, and pedagogical strategies. . . . these essays serve as a guide for all academics."
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