Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

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291 i n d e x abolition of whiteness, 97 Aboud, Frances: racial bias in preschoolers , 231 Abrahamic religions, 209 Abram, David, 51–52 accessibility, 94 “acting white,” 87–88 Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, 109, 120, 129 adoption, 37, 45, 252n44 affirmative action, 65, 79, 110, 119 affirmative duties of government, xxiii, 122–123 affirmative goals: in hiring and education, 5; for racial justice, xxiii African American president, xx; as historical milestone, 3–4, 28, 229; support of white voters, 3; understandings fostered by election, 4 Africans, 54, 151–152 Alexander, Michelle, 124, 126, 127 Alexander v. Sandoval, 122 Allen, Theodore, 54, 69, 86, 151 American aspirations, xxiv American Dilemma, An, 3 American Dream, xviii American exceptionalism, xxiv anti-miscegenation laws, xvii, 146; colonial development and penalties, 34–35; Loving v. Virginia, 35; struck down by Supreme Court, 35, 37; and white purity, 41, 145 anti-racist agendas, 46 apartheid in South Africa, 223 Aristotle, and equality, 9–10 Armstrong, Karen, 218 Armstrong, Margalynne, 77, 78 Aspen, Colo., 139, 153 assimilation, 66, 70, 75, 82–97, 103, 158 Bacon’s Rebellion, 150–152 Baldus study, 111, 112 Baldwin, James, xiii, 135, 150, 158, 174 banks: bailout, refusal to lend, 238 Beauvoir, Simone de, 94–95 Bell, Derrick, 137, 144 beloved community, xviii Berger, John, 71 Berkeley, University of California at, xiii Berrigan, Daniel, xix bias, implicit, 21–23 Bible, 200, 224 binary, racial, 72 Black, Charles, 10 Black, Derek W., 122–123 black, non-black society, 27, 71 blackness in U.S.: quest for liberation, 155 Black Power, 87 blacks: middle class, 59; perceived as nonhuman , 57, 72 borders: national, 137; policing of, 138; white, 137 Boston, 61 boundaries, xiv; drawing of, xxiii; inter- index 292 nal and external, xxiii; racial, 136, 156; sexual orientation, 136, socially constructed , 136 boxing, 156 Boyle, James, 175, 185 brain activity: visible and measurable, 230 Brazil, 44 Brennan, Justice William J., 102, 107; McCleskey, 112 Brewer, Rose, xi brotherhood, vii Brown v. Board of Education: and creation of suburbs, 14; discussed by Roberts in Parents Involved, 6; and educational apartheid, 30; overruling Plessy, 113; promise of, 117, 118, 155; resistance to, 240; stigma, 192; white supremacy, 150 Buddha, 212–213, 227 Buddhism: challenge to caste in India, 205; mindfulness, 183; nondualism, 182; nonreferential awareness, 183; “otherworldly ,” 205; and self, 181–184; transcendence , 204 Buddhist conception of self, xxiv, 164, 181–184, 210 Burger, Chief Justice Warren, 106, 116 Bush, President George H. W., and Willie Horton, 59 Bush, President George W., 156 Butler, Judith, 188 Byrnes, Erin E., 110 Calmore, John O.: on racialized discourse, 59; and racialized space, 58; on racism, 29 canary in the coal mine: sensitivity of lowincome communities of color, 25 capital sentencing: and fear of too much justice, 114; Georgia, 111 Cardinal George, 216, 224 Carter, Robert, 150 caste, racial, xvii; based on pigmentocracy, 45 Castellino, Domini R., 88 categorical characteristic, 141 categorical inequality, 102 categories, xiv, 192 Catholicism and Protestantism, 217 census (1890): racial categories, 33, 42 Center for Responsible Lending, 61 Christian beliefs, 59, 169, 207, 222 church/state separation, xviii circle of human concern, 235, 243 citizenship for blacks, 143 Citizens United v. FEC, 130, 131, 239 City of Richmond v. Croson, 50–51 civil rights movement, 145, 147, 148, 155 Civil Rights Project, 61 Civil War, 130, 143, 144; and racial restructuring , 147, 155 Civil War Amendments: and Brown v. Board, 10; and citizenship, 143; and Court’s intent doctrine, 106; and white supremacy, 146 class, 3 Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., xix cognitive associations or schemas, 230 colonial America, xxiv, 55, 150–152 colonialism, 169, 170 colonial powers, 71 color blindness, xxi, xxiii, 21, 230, 244; as color evasiveness, 62; and neoconservatives , 30; and opportunity, 65–66; and racial categories, 30–33, 49; and racism, 41; to support status quo, 6, 7, 63, 78 colorism, xxi, 38 color line, xiii common ground, for creating of new selves and space, 244 concentrated poverty, 243 Confederacy, 108 conscious mind: racism, 5, 235 consciousness, 158 conservative movement, xvii, xviii, xxi; arguments, xxi; indifference to racial hierarchy, 6 constitutional amendments, 65 contextuality, xx; and nature of race, 46 corporations: Fourteenth Amendment, 144; institutions of concentrated economic power and wealth, 240; judgemade law, 236; misaligned with respect to democratic government, 239, 240, 242; as persons, 130; seek to suppress index 293 public rights, human and environmental , 242; shift to global markets, 237 counterculture movement, 8 Crenshaw, Kimberl...