Whiteness is invisible in American law. The U.S. Constitution never mentions white people. Indeed, the entirety of constitutional and statutory law, at both the federal and state level, includes only two antidiscrimina-tion statutes that refer explicitly to white people. These Reconstruction- era statutes—42 U.S.C. § 1981 and § 1982—declare that all people shall have the “same right” regarding contracts and property as that “enjoyed by white citizens.”

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白人公民享受

白人在美国法律中是不可见的。美国宪法从未提及白人。事实上，联邦和州一级的整个宪法和成文法仅包括两项明确提及白人的反歧视法规。这些重建时代的法规——42 USC § 1981 和 § 1982——宣布所有人在合同和财产方面都应享有与“白人公民享有的权利”一样的“权利”。