Racial Color Blindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 205-209

  Apfelbaum, Evan P ^a   Norton, Michael I ^b   Sommers, Samuel R ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

affirmative action; bias; color blindness; discrimination; diversity; race

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862018541     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721411434980     Document Type: Article

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