Osagie Obasogie on Race and (Color)Blindness

In this episode we talk with Osagie Obasogie [1], Professor of Law at University of California - Hastings. We talk about his book Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind [2]. In this book he asks: how do blind people understand race? By engaging in qualitative research with individuals who have been totally blind since birth, this project provides an empirical basis from which to rethink core assumptions embedded in social and legal approaches to race and discrimination.

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[1] http://www.uchastings.edu/academics/faculty/facultybios/obasogie/index.php

[2] http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=20242

[3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH91_Obasogie.mp3