{"id":56784,"date":"2013-08-16T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=56784"},"modified":"2013-10-31T03:53:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T08:53:44","slug":"are-blind-people-colorblind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/08\/16\/are-blind-people-colorblind\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Blind People Colorblind?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screenshot_2\"<\/a>The short answer? No.<\/p>\n

Law professor Osagie K. Obasogie<\/a>\u00a0interviewed a series of people who had been\u00a0blind since birth about their understanding of the concept of race. \u00a0 Counter-intuitively, he found that race was as meaningful to them as it was to sighted people and that their descriptions and biases were largely in line with cultural norms. \u00a0The article<\/a> includes really striking quotations from the interviewees and what Obasogie describes as an “empirical assessment of the metaphor of colorblindness.” \u00a0He’s also published a book based on the research: Blinded By Sight<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this three minute interview, he explains some of his findings:<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The short answer? No. Law professor Osagie K. Obasogie\u00a0interviewed a series of people who had been\u00a0blind since birth about their understanding of the concept of race. \u00a0 Counter-intuitively, he found that race was as meaningful to them as it was to sighted people and that their descriptions and biases were largely in line with cultural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":56787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,251,345,283,285,20063,293],"class_list":["post-56784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-hair","tag-disability","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_118.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57998,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56784\/revisions\/57998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}