Colorblindness: Seminar
Spring term, Block J
W 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Visiting Professor Ian F. Haney Lopez
2 classroom credits LAW-92135A
This seminar closely engages with colorblindness as it has developed over the last four decades. Although it gives some attention to the origins of colorblindness during Reconstruction and its use by racial advocates during the early Civil Rights Movement, the class gives primary emphasis to how this racial stance has been articulated by the Supreme Court since roughly 1970. To understand both the contemporary rise as well as the wider social impact of colorblindness, the seminar takes a broad approach, reading leading cases, giving significant time to legal commentary drawn from both the constitutional and critical race theory genres, and also considering historical as well as sociological scholarship.