"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 decisionmaker as
race-neutral but which in fact reflect white, race-specific
norms.
Flagg here identifies this transparently white decisionmaking as
a form of institutional racism that contributes significantly,
though unobtrusively, to the maintenance of white supremacy.
Bringing the discussion to bear on the arena of law, Flagg analyzes
key areas of race discrimination law and makes the case for reforms
that would bring legal doctrine into greater harmony with the
recognition of institutional racism in general and the transparency
phenomenon in particular. She concludes with an exploration of the
meaning of whiteness in a pluralist culture, paving the way for a
positive, nonracist conception of whiteness as a distinct racial
identity.
An informed and substantive call for doctrinal reform, Was Blind
But Now I See is the most expansive treatment yet of the
relationship between whiteness and law.
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