Bad Faith and the Culture War
Pathologies of Colorblindness in Politics, Law, and Civil Society
Bad Faith and the Culture War
Pathologies of Colorblindness in Politics, Law, and Civil Society
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Description
This book exposes how colorblind ideology operates as a persuasive veneer of neutrality that quietly entrenches racial inequality.
Examining legal originalism, cultural invocations of “Western tradition,” and reactionary backlash to Critical Race Theory and antiracist activism, Amien Kacou demonstrates how appeals to objectivity and heritage conceal profoundly political commitments. Each chapter analyzes a distinct mode of colorblind rhetoric-projective, equivocal, hysterical, and obsessive-to show how these patterns distort antiracist efforts and stabilize existing racial hierarchies. Taken together, the book reveals colorblindness not as a benign ideal but as a deliberate, ongoing strategy to resist meaningful racial justice.
Table of Contents
Preface (and Disclaimer)
Chapter 1: Projective Doublespeak: A Modus Operandi of Reactionary Colorblindness
Chapter 2: Textual Originalist Equivocation: The Ambiguity of “Neutrality” in the “Crowning Glory” of “Western Tradition”
Chapter 3: Hysterical Colorblindness: “Demonization and Dismissal,” or Genealogical Fallacies and Methodological Blind Spots about Critical Race Theory as “New Left” Thought
Chapter 4: Obsessive Compulsive Colorblindness: Checking the Untimely Esotericism (and the Esoteric Untimeliness) of “Woke” Antiracism
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Product details
| Published | Nov 12 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9798216377405 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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