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study of anti Blackness and white supremacy

across four continents demonstrates that colorblindness is neither new nor a subtype of racist ideology, but a constitutive technology of racism In Colorblind Tools , Marzia Milazzo offers a transnational account of anti Blackness and white supremacy that pushes anst the dominant emphasis on historical change pervading current racial theory.
This emphasis on change, she contends, misses critical lessons from the pa Bringing together a capacious archive of texts on race produced in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Pana, the United States, and South Africa from multiple disciplines and genres, Milazzo uncovers transnational continuities in structural racism and white supremacist discourse from the inception of colonial modernity to the present.
In the process, she traces the global workings of what she calls colorblind tools : technologies and strategies that at once couflage and reproduce white domination, Whether exining Rijno van der Riet's defense of slavery in the Cape Colony, discourses of racial mixture in Latin erican eugenics and their reverberations in contemporary scholarship, the pitfalls of white "antiracism," or Chicana indigenist aesthetics, Milazzo ilrates how white people collectively disavow racism to maintain power across national boundaries, and how anti Black and colonial logics can be reproduced even in some decolonial literatures.
Milazzo's groundbreaking study proves that colorblindness is not new, nor is it a subtype of racist ideology or a hallmark of our era, It is a constitutive technology of racism a tool the master cannot do without, .