Was Blind, But Now I See: White Race Consciousness and the Law PDF
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Was Blind, But Now I See Critical America GENERAL EDITORS: RICHARD DELGAD O AND JEAN STEFANCIC White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race IAN F . HANE Y LOPE Z Cultivating Intelligence: Power, Law, and the Politics of Teaching LOUISE HARMO N AN D DEBORA H W . POS T Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America STEPHANIE M . WILDMA N WITH MARGALYNN E ARMSTRONG, ADRIENNE D . DAVIS , AND TRIN A GRILL O Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor? or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Afford a Loaf of Bread? R. GEORG E WRIGHT Hybrid: Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits under American Law RUTH COLKE R Critical Race Feminism: A Reader EDITED B Y ADRIEN KATHERIN E WING Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States EDITED B Y JUAN F . PERE A Taxing America EDITED B Y KARE N B . BROW N AN D MAR Y LOUIS E FELLOW S Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Color Blindness and the End of Affirmative Action BRYAN K . FAI R Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State STEPHEN M . FELDMA N To Be an American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation BILL ON G HIN G Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America JODY DAVI D ARMOU R Black and Brown in America: The Case for Cooperation BILL PIAT T Black Rage Confronts the Law PAUL HARRI S Selling Words: Free Speech in a Commercial Culture R. GEORG E WRIGH T The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other Macroaggressions KATHERYN K . RUSSEL L The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and Law ROBERT L . HAYMAN , JR . Was Blind, But Now I See: White Race Consciousness and the Law BARBARA J . FLAG G Was Blind, But Now I See White Race Consciousness & the Law BARBARA J . FLAG G NEW YOR K UNIVERSIT Y PRES S New York and London NEW YOR K UNIVERSIT Y PRES S New York and London Copyright © 1998 by New York University All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Flagg, Barbara J., 1947- Was blind, but now I see : white race consciousness and the law / Barbara J. Flagg. p. cm . Includes index. ISBN 0-8147-2643-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Afro-Americans—Legal status, laws, etc. 2 . Rac e discrimination—Law and legislation—United States. 3 . United States—Race relations. I . Title. KF4757.F59 199 8 346.7301'3—dc21 97-2116 2 CIP New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To my mentors Ruth Bade r Ginsbur g Herma Hil l Kay Amazing grace! How sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like mel I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see, —John Newton John Newton (1725-1807 ) was captain of a slave ship fro m 1750 t o 1754 , but a religious conversion gradually led hi m to repudiat e hi s former occupatio n an d eventuall y to writ e an antislaver y pamphlet title d "Thought s upo n th e Africa n Slave Trade." Newton's account of the realities of the slave trade wa s perhaps th e most detaile d the n i n circulation. I t contributed greatl y to the success of the English Abolitionist movement.
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