Abstract
Doane provides a critical overview of the current state of theorizing colorblind racial inequality, because, as he argues, colorblindness has been identified by race scholars as one of the major political strategies for the preservation of white supremacy and racial inequality. His chapter includes both a discussion of the political and social significance of colorblindness and an analysis of its dynamic and contradictory nature. He then presents a brief analysis of racial ideology and movies, with a focus on the 2016 controversy over black representation at the Academy Awards ceremony (#OscarsSoWhite). He concludes with a discussion of the consequences of the persistence of colorblindness and systemic racism in Hollywood and in society as a whole.
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Doane, A.(. (2019). Colorblindness: The Lens That Distorts. In: Turner, S., Nilsen, S. (eds) The Myth of Colorblindness. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17447-7_2
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