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Harlan’s Dissent: Citizenship, Education, and the Color-Conscious Constitution

Douglas S. Reed
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2021, 7 (1) 148-165; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2021.7.1.09
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aProfessor of government and director of the MA Program in Educational Transformation at Georgetown University, United States
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    • HARLAN’S DISSENT, FULL CITIZENSHIP, AND EQUAL PROTECTION ANALYSIS
    • BROWN AND THE STRATEGIC DEPLOYMENT OF COLORBLINDNESS
    • THE SUPREME COURT MOVES TOWARD COLORBLIND CONSTITUTIONALISM
    • THE COLORBLIND REFORMULATION OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
    • THE TRIUMPH OF COLORBLINDNESS AND THE END OF BROWN
    • CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND COLOR-CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE CLASSROOM
    • EMPIRICAL EXAMINATIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF COLOR-CONSCIOUS PEDAGOGIES
    • CONCLUSION: COLOR-CONSCIOUS EDUCATION AND THE FULL RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP
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