For much of the course we have been discussing whether or not colleges, governments, and other organizations should be treat people in a color-blind manner. We turn now to whether we should think of ourselves in a color-blind manner. For instance, do blacks liberate themselves or do they cripple themselves when they seek to develop strong black identities and group solidarity? Carter and Kennedy answer this question very differently.
Their debate is central to many of the issues that you have mentioned in the context of college life, for example, feelings about interracial dating, self-segregation in housing and social activities, white resentment that they must integrate but minorities may segregate, and minority resentment that whites don't understand the stress of being a racial minority.