COLORBLIND TOOLS, global technologies of racial power

392pp., paperback, First SA Edition, UJ Press, Johannesburg, 2025

ISBN: 9780906785577

First published in the USA in 2022. Winner of the 2023 Association for Ethnic Studies Outstanding Book Award.

In her study Marzia Milazzo brings together texts on race produced in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, the United States and South Africa to uncover transnational continuities in structural racism and white supremacist discourse and trace the global workings of what she calls "colorblind tools": technologies and strategies that at once camouflage and reproduce white domination.

"A meticulous traversal across the worlds of history, culture, law and politics, this treatise is at once a statement on the continued power and relevance of Critical Race Theory as well as an express example of why it continues to threaten those who would wish to blind the world from the continued rule of white supremacy." Ndumiso Dladla, author of Here is a Table: A Philosophical Essay on History and Race in South Africa 

"Utilizing interdisciplinary reading practices and analytical methods mainly invented by subaltern subjects, Milazzo bridges the history of post-slavery and postcolonial ideas and their ongoing contemporary extensions, clarifications, and interventions into a narrative that gives us a powerful contemporary account of how white supremacy remains the central tool for organizing all of global life." Rinaldo Walcott, author of The Long Emancipation: Moving toward Black Freedom

Marzia Milazzo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Johannesburg.