Color-blind Constitutionalism Research Articles

A Critique of "Our Constitution Is Color-Blind"

II. COLOR-BLIND CONSTITUTIONALISM AND THE PUBLICPRIVATE DISTINCTION 7 A. The Private Right to Discriminate 8 B. The Normative Content of the Public-Private Distinction. 12 1. Public and private relations 13 2. Public and private actors 14 III. NONRECOGNITION 16 A. Nonrecognition as Technique 16 B. Self-Contradiction and Repression ... 17 1. The impossibility of private sphere nonrecognition .... 18 2. The incoherence of discounting racialness ......... 21 3. Repression and denial of racial subordination ....... 21 IV. RACIAL CATEGORIES 23 A. American Racial Classification: Hypodescent 23 1. The rule of hypodescent 24 2. Alternatives to hypodescent 25 3. Support for racial subordination 26 B. Assertion of Racial Subordination 26 1. Equality and the social metaphor of racial purity .... 26 2. Subordination in recognition 27 C. Disguising the Mutability of Racial Categorization ...... 28 1. The scientific legitimation of race 28 2. The tradition of physiognomy 30