Abstract:In the contemporary United States, race relations are considered a dynamic process and linked to political struggle. Color consciousness is a concept that helps us understand how groups are formed and maintained in society, highlighting collective cohesion in relation to the dominate power structures. As a political practice, color consciousness disrupts both the centrality and neutrality of whiteness in structural arrangements, giving racial groups more visibility and input.
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.