As one of our contributors notes, intriguingly, these goals can actually function as a way of perpetuating the racializing effects of inequalities embedded in society.38 Indeed, some accounts of postracialism are synonymous with colorblindness as a response to racism, a commonly held value among evangelicals that rejects attention to race in society as a way of eliminating racial discrimination. Yet, in calling for an end to racial categorizations without first recognizing and eradicating historical, persistent, and ongoing differentials between racial groups in terms of access to housing,
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