Some early and ongoing thoughts on Digitizing Race as I navigate this text…I’m interested by the notion that color blindness is a symptom of racism (3).  Perhaps this has to do with my sociohistoric coming of age during the neoliberalism of the 1990’s.  It seems that Nakamura readily accepts this notion (thus far, anyway) and I find it potentially at odds with her acceptance of the hybridization of visual culture production and consumption, race and gender, and knowledge/power.  Most of the time, Nakamura espouses the destruction of binarisms, which I applaud and subscribe to on a regular basis.  My question, then, is how one could envision a spectrum of race/racism, whilst “color blindness is a symptom of racism”?  One answer could be in the qualification of symptom; it seems to me, however, that the symptom qualification is more Oliver-iam than Nakamura-n, as Nakamura equates this neoliberal color blindness as ignorance of the reality.  And, I agree – to an extent.  I just wonder if there is a more complex sociohistoric argument for color blindness not inhabiting a solely negatively connoted position in race.  Certainly, an erasure of identity is a scary “solution” to the problem of racism or the question of race – one I don’t advocate.  The tone in this portion of the introduction just seems a bit too absolute to me, at this point.  I look forward to exploring the possibe ways in which “new media can look to an increasingly vital digital cultural margin or counterculture for resistance” imposed conditions (18).