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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor challenges the notion that the United States is fundamentally “color-blind” or a “postracial society.” Taylor, who teaches at the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, shows that this fantasy has become a major justification for dismantling the state’s capacity to challenge the real and pervasive discrimination that persists not only in the criminal justice system and in the economy, but also in the ways that the courts are now engaged in allowing racist states to restore old barriers to voting. Her central point is that these attacks on African Americans are a “Trojan horse” shielding a much broader attack against all working-class people, including whites and Latino/as. The political and economic elite have a vested interest in color-blindness and in perpetuating the myth that America is a meritocracy, precisely to hide the fundamental injustice of the entire system from the victims of austerity cutbacks in social...