Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional by Mark Golub – Edition 2019

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Liberals and conservatives may disagree on what-if any-kinds of corrective racial justice policies are permissible. But both will agree on the vision of a color-blind Constitution, whether as aspirational ideal or functioning reality. In this uncompromising challenge to the conventional racial wisdom, Mark Golub forces us to face a shocking possibility: that white racial domination is constitutionally protected. Everyone concerned about the realistic prospects for achieving racial equality in the United States needs to read this book.”
– Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center

“With great intelligence, insight and erudition, Mark Golub demonstrates how both liberal and conservative legal theorists and judges have fundamentally misunderstood the realities of racial domination in the United States. Through careful, critical, and detailed analyses of Brown v. Board, Plessy v. Ferguson, and other landmark cases, Golub reveals how the ideal of colorblindness as the default position for social justice actually functions as a color conscious tool crafted to protect white preferences and privileges.”
— George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

“Lucidly written and theoretically rich, Is Racial Equality Unconstitutional? upends the assumption that colorblindness represents a disavowal of racial consciousness and awareness. Instead, drawing from a wide range of cases and sites, Golub shows how colorblind ‘racial neutrality’ has continually fueled white racial advantage. A sober and important book for our times.”
– -Daniel Martinez HoSang, Yale University