Download or read book The Color of Equality written by Devin J. Vartija and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightenment thinkers bequeathed a paradoxical legacy to the modern world: they expanded the purview of equality while simultaneously inventing the modern concept of race. The Color of Equality makes sense of this tension by demonstrating that the same Enlightenment impulse—the naturalization of humanity—underlay both of these trends.