1. In the article assigned as an additional reading, “Color-Blind Racism in Pandemic Times, ” author Eduardo Bonilla-Silva argues that “color-blind racism is limiting our understanding of the structural nature of the various racial problems coronavirus disease 2019 has revealed, making it difficultto envision the kinds of policies needed to address them.” Explain the following:
- What is color-blind racism?
- How is color-blind racism limiting our understanding of the structural nature of the racial problems the coronavirus revealed?
- What does the structural nature of the problems mean?
- What kinds of policies are needed to address the racial problems revealed?
- If color-blind racism is contributing to this social problem(s), what would be a better alternative and why?
2. In the article assigned as an additional reading, “A Primer on Intersectionality,” authors Kimberle Crenshaw and Luke Harris argue that a “new prism is needed,” intersectionality, to better analyze, intervene in, and advocate on issues related to social justice issues. Explain the following:
- What is intersectionality?
- How is it different than single-axis analyses of social justice issues?
- Does intersectionality provide a better prism to understand social justice issues than single-axis analyses?
- How would an intersectional analysis be applied to the issue(s) raised about race and color-blindness in the Bonilla-Silva article that you discussed in part one of this response? For example, how would an intersectional paper on the structural nature of the various racial problems the coronavirus disease has revealed be different than the one Bonilla-Silva wrote?
