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Blinded by Sight - Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind (Hardcover, New)
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Blinded by Sight - Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind (Hardcover, New)
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Colorblindness has become an integral part of the national
conversation on race in America. Given the assumptions behind this
influential metaphor--that being blind to race will lead to racial
equality--it's curious that, until now, we have not considered if
or how the blind "see" race. Most sighted people assume that the
answer is obvious: they don't, and are therefore incapable of
racial bias--an example that the sighted community should
presumably follow. In "Blinded by Sight," Osagie K. Obasogie shares
a startling observation made during discussions with people from
all walks of life who have been blind since birth: even the blind
aren't colorblind--blind people understand race visually, just like
everyone else. Ask a blind person what race is, and they will more
than likely refer to visual cues such as skin color. Obasogie finds
that, because blind people think about race visually, they orient
their lives around these understandings in terms of who they are
friends with, who they date, and much more.
In "Blinded by Sight," Obasogie argues that rather than being
visually obvious, both blind and sighted people are socialized to
see race in particular ways, even to a point where blind people
"see" race. So what does this mean for how we live and the laws
that govern our society? Obasogie delves into these questions and
uncovers how color blindness in law, public policy, and culture
will not lead us to any imagined racial utopia.
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