Racial Legacies & Learning IX:
Colorblind or Color Conscious? How to Bridge the Racial Divide

February 5, 2003

Prepared by the Staff of Rentschler Library
Miami University Hamilton

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Katzenbach, Nicholas deB., and Burke Marshall. "Not Color Blind: Just Blind." In Sex, Race, and Merit : Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment, ed. Faye J. Crosby and Cheryl VanDeVeer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Kull, Andrew. The Color-Blind Constitution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Neville, Helen A., Roger L. Worthington, and Lisa B. Spanierman. "Race, Power, and Multicultural Counseling Psychology: Understanding White Privilege and Color-Blind Racial Attitudes." In Handbook of Multicultural Counseling, ed. Joseph G. Ponterotto. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2001.

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Williams, Rhonda M., and William E. Spriggs. "How Does It Feel to Be Free?: Reflections on Black-White Economic Inequality in the Era of "Color-Blind" Law." In Leading Issues in Black Political Economy, ed. Thomas D. Boston. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002.