{"id":4986,"date":"2010-02-04T22:03:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2010-02-04T22:09:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T22:09:14","slug":"i%e2%80%99m-color-blind-but-what-are-you-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4986","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Color-blind But What Are You, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.org\/content\/2007\/__korgen_%20o_brien_colorblind.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019m Color-blind But What Are You, Anyway?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Electronic Journal of Sociology (2007)<br \/>\nISSN: 1198 3655<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww3.wpunj.edu\/hmss\/sociology\/faculty\/korgen.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kathleen Korgen<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>William Paterson University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sswa.cnu.edu\/obrien.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Eileen O\u2019Brien<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Christopher Newport University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Using primary data from interviews conducted with 1) close black-white friends and 2) biracial Americans, we examine the relationship between the traditional fixation on racial categorizations and the current emphasis on color-blindness. In doing so, we reveal that, instead of indicating a decline in the importance of race, the color-blind ideology acts as both a cover for the obsession with race in U.S. society and a subtle but effective reinforcement for it.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.org\/content\/2007\/__korgen_%20o_brien_colorblind.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m Color-blind But What Are You, Anyway? Electronic Journal of Sociology (2007) ISSN: 1198 3655 Kathleen Korgen, Professor of Sociology William Paterson University Eileen O\u2019Brien, Assistant Professor of Sociology Christopher Newport University Using primary data from interviews conducted with 1) close black-white friends and 2) biracial Americans, we examine the relationship between the traditional fixation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,394,20],"tags":[313,2004,312,224],"class_list":["post-4986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-eileen-obrien","tag-electronic-journal-of-sociology","tag-kathleen-korgen","tag-kathleen-odell-korgen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}