Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional?
Author | : Mark Golub |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2018 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780190683603 |
ISBN-13 | : 0190683600 |
Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: For some, the idea of a color-blind constitution signals a commonsense ideal of equality and a new "post-racial" American era. For others, it supplies a narrow constitutional vision, which serves to disqualify many of the tools needed to combat persistent racial inequality in the United States. Rather than taking a position either for or against color-blindness, Mark Golub takes issue with the blindness/consciousness dichotomy itself. This book demonstrates how color-blind constitutionalism conceals its own race-conscious political commitments in defense of existing racial hierarchy, and renders the pursuit of racial justice as a constitutionally impermissible goal.