0 US spelling of colour-blind --
1 unable to tell the difference between certain colors, esp. green and blue --
2 not considering race when making decisions: --
Squirrel monkeys in nature actually see things more or less the same way humans who are red-green colorblind do.
Can we teach a colorblind person how to see red, what red is?
It might be worth mentioning, however, that sea lions are colorblind.
In an artist's statement, he cites research that even colorblind people are affected by the calming power of a particular shade of pink.
The biker bar and the projects both undoubtedly are filled with people who are racially colorblind, but most would assume that some might not be.
And the popular, supposedly colorblind justification for the mass incarceration of people of color holds no water: crime rates.
This kind of colorblind casting can have two effects on diversity.
A rather ironic -- if not perverse -- way colorblind casting can operate without prior critical understanding is the equal-opportunity re-performance of racialized roles and conventions.