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It argues that denying race undermines individuals’ racial identity, culture, and history, while treating whiteness as the universal, unexamined norm. 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Patterson, Jenny Gordon,& Paula Groves Price  \nJean A. Patterson is a professor in the College of Education at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. Jenny Gordon is a professor in the College of Education at the University of Binghamton, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York. Paula Groves Price is a professor in the College of Education at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.  \nSince the overturning of the 1896 “separate but equal”Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling with the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision, U.S. society and schools (in theory) have attempted to make the basic tenets of democracy and freedom a lived reality for all citizens, without regard to race (Jones, 1998) . Since the Brown decision, U.S. social mores have considerably changed, with most discourse centered on “colorblind” ideology—where one’s race is believed to be irrelevant to one’s treatment in society.  \nWe argue, however, that colorblindness is merely a cover for inequities that continue to exist. The consequence of a colorblind ideology is the denial of individuals’racial identity, culture, and history and the presumption ofan equal playing field (Schofield, 2001) . Asan ideology, colorblindness is particularly persuasive because it seems to advocate for an equal and just society. However, in a just society skin color would not be associated with degrees ofpower or privilege. We agree with Thompson (1999), who posited,“Colorblindness  \nis parasitic upon racism, it is only in a racist society that pretending not to notice color could be construed as a particularly virtuous act”(p. 524) .  \nThe colorblind perspective is reflected in the bulk of educational research, including research on school reform, where there is an “overwhelming presence of Whiteness”(Sleeter, 2001). Ironically the overwhelming presence of Whiteness is accompanied by an astonishing unawareness of thatpresence. Whiteness is presumed to be the universal lens that fits all experience, a presumption that automatically denies multiple perspectives. In other words,Whiteness is normative and, as a result, is not questioned (Ladson-Billings, 1998). Colorblindness, therefore, becomes the ideal through which we extend ignoring Whiteness to ignoring race as a whole.  \nWe believe that race is central to what schools do and how they do it. However, in most cases, race is focused exclusively on people of color and Whiteness is glaringly absent from racial discourse. Race (conceptualized to include Whiteness) isnot often claimed as fundamental to educational reform efforts (Shujaa, 1994) . Mainstream educational reform efforts are usually colorblind and premised on unacknowledged assumptions of Whiteness, which are taken for granted and seen as “race neutral.” We believe that the Whiteness underlying educational reform is far from race neutral and perpetuates existing power relations.  \nColorblindness is therefore fundamental to the enactment of reform through pedagogy and practices that assume race has no effect on how children learn. It is through “race-neutral” perspectives that instruction is seen as a generic set of teaching skills that should work for all students (Ladson-Billings, 1998). When colorblind pedagogies do not work for all students, particularly students of color, the “problem”is conceptualized as individual deficiency (García & Guerra, 2004; Valencia & Solorzano, 1997), but neither the pedagogy itself nor the Whiteness embedded in the pedagogy are questioned. Conceding that Whiteness and White pedagogy are not universal poses a threat, as White people might lose their unacknowledged advantage (McIntosh, 1989). Another threat such a concession presents is acknowledging the need to make race central to a wholesale reconceptualization of education and pedagogy rather than creating superficial, additive solutions that only serve to reify Whiteness. We argue that con","cbCairFIJ8Kxop8Y","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairFIJ8Kxop8Y","pdf",155443,"English","# The Color of Caring: Race and the Implementation of Educational Reform\n## Colorblindness and persistent inequity\n## Whiteness in educational research and reform\n## Race-neutral pedagogy and the individual deficiency framing\n## Theoretical Framework: Caring in Education\n## Noddings’ four components of caring","[{\"question\":\"What does the text mean by “colorblind” ideology in education?\",\"answer\":\"It describes an approach that treats race as irrelevant to how people are treated and how education functions. 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