Argues that the civil rights movement's original goal of color-blindness has been abandoned by contemporary progressives who embrace race essentialism. Hughes contends that race-conscious policies are both morally wrong and practically counterproductive, and that MLK's universalism remains the correct framework for racial justice.
Systematic intellectual case for color-blind liberalism as both the historically authentic civil rights tradition and the practically superior approach to racial justice, aimed at a general audience.
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