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color-blind racial ideology  

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  • Over the past 2 decades scholars and popular authors have written about racial color-blindness as a way to characterize racial beliefs in the post-civil rights era. At its core, racial color-blindness refers to the belief that racism is a thing of the past and that race no longer plays a role in understanding people's lived experience. [Source: Encyclopedia of Counseling; Color-Blind Racial Ideology]

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