Today, skin color is understood as a common marker of race, but that hasn’t always been the case. Here's how color became such an integral part of how we perceive race, explains CarolynPurnell
: a color then associated with jaundice, weakness, and treachery. Over time, these terms grew increasingly literal.
Post-Linnaeus, spates of naturalists were eager to give their own opinions about the racial divisions of the globe. Many of these writers grounded their systems in specious “evidence” and claimed their ideas were founded in nature., or the use of empirical methods to support or justify racism, was born. And color had become a stand-in for race.Race became so firmly anchored in skin color that now it is almost impossible to see them as separate.
Moreover, the very notion of “colorblindness,” as applied to race, is a fallacy. The term suggests that the blind are exempt from concepts of skin color and therefore live in a world where race doesn’t matter.interviewed more than 150 blind people, only to find out that, overwhelmingly, they still understand race visually, just like anyone else. When asked to define race, respondents answered with physical cues like skin color, hair, eye shape, and facial features.
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