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

by Charles Henry and Barbara J. Flagg

Book Overview

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 decision maker as race-neutral but which in fact reflect white, race-specific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814726437
• ISBN13: 9780814726433
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"