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Is Colorblindness the Answer?

‘The End of Race Politics’ by Coleman Hughes argues for removing race from our public and private lives.
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Coleman Hughes, author of 'The End of Race Politics,' testifying during a hearing on slavery reparations held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties on June 19, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Conversations about race tend to oscillate between two frustrating, polarizing extremes, between a right that often exacerbates racial animus and a left that frequently treats race as the central, enduring fact of American life.

It’s this latter tendency that Coleman Hughes explores in The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America.

Luis Parrales is an assistant editor at The Atlantic. He was previously an associate editor for arts and culture at The Dispatch.

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