Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional?

For some, the idea of a color-blind constitution signals a commonsense ideal of equality and a new "post-racial" American era. For others, it supplies a narrow constitutional vision, which serves to disqualify many of the tools needed to combat persistent racial inequality in the United States. Rather than taking a position either for or against color-blindness, Mark Golub takes issue with the blindness/consciousness dichotomy itself. This book demonstrates howcolor-blind constitutionalism conceals its own race-conscious political commitments in defense of existing racial hierarchy, and renders the pursuit of racial justice as a constitutionally impermissible goal.

• | Author: Mark Golub
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 02, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 233 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Law
• | ISBN-10: 0190683600
• | ISBN-13: 9780190683603