Racializing Obama: The Enigma of Post-Black Politics and Leadership

Marable, Manning

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“…Color-blindness is touted as an essential characteristic of neoliberal, contemporary United States society by the political right (Marable 2009;Okamura 2011) as well as by the mass media and individuals of various political orientations (Bonilla-Silva 2003;Cisneros 2013). Appeals to color-blind discourses provide a way to dismiss racial inequalities even as it is unmarked, implicit whiteness that is commonly conflated with Americanness and belonging (Bonilla-Silva 2003;Cisneros 2013;Hess and Sobre-Denton 2014;Omi and Winant 2015).…”

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Racializing undocumented immigrants in the age of color-blindness: Millennials’ views from Kentucky

Alcalde

2016

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This study examines millennials' views of Latino immigrants in Kentucky, a new settlement state in the US South. I suggest that whereas eighteen-to twenty-yearold students in a university setting condemn the institutional and generational racism they identify in their communities, and perceive their racial and immigration attitudes as more open and tolerant than those of previous generations, discussions about immigration reveal fissures in ideas and practices that aspire to be inclusive, open and tolerant. Examining the disconnect between professed ideas and expressed beliefs underscores that current formulations of color-blindness are neither a clean break from past racism nor fully capable of tolerating contemporary differences. I point to the racialization processes at work in the common sense connection between "illegal" and "Latino" to reveal the limits of belonging within this color-blind world. In this context, race matters and racism against Latinos is the norm rather than the exception for past and current generations.

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Racializing undocumented immigrants in the age of color-blindness: Millennials’ views from Kentucky

Alcalde

2016

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“…Alternately, many scholars have suggested that the 2008 election belies an otherwise unchanged racial landscape in the United States (Haney-López, 2010;Marable, 2009) or even that Obama himself contributes to distorted images of America's racial climate by failing to center race as a national issue.…”

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“…In keeping with other scholars' work on the subject (e.g.,Marable, 2009), I use both "Black" and "African American" to describe Obama's racial background.…”

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Not Stopping at First: Racial Literacy and the Teaching of Barack Obama

Smith

2014

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“…Others have asserted that even those black representatives committed to the black struggle are likely to find themselves tokens inside majority-white institutions, with very little power and influence (Guinier 1994). Now, with a new generation of black politicians adopting deracialized political frameworks in which race is removed from the discourse, the future of black leadership and its role in black political progress has been brought into question (Assensoh and Alex-Assensoh 2003;Crayton 2010;Marable 2010). Even with the first black U.S. president in office and a number of black Americans in leadership roles in American institutions and major political parties, some still argue that there is a crisis in black leadership.…”

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Invisible Black Politics: An Analysis of Black Congressional Leadership from the Inside

Gamble

2011

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For most of American history, black Americans were excluded from the political process. Even after the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, for decades, especially in the South, blacks were prevented from voting through various institutional tactics (e.g., poll taxes and literacy tests), violence, and intimidation. As a result, most political institutions through the mid-twentieth century had few or no black faces. With the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the Fifteenth Amendment was codified, and blacks began to vote and participate in the political process in unprecedented ways.

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Racializing Obama: The Enigma of Post-Black Politics and Leadership

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Racializing undocumented immigrants in the age of color-blindness: Millennials’ views from Kentucky

Racializing undocumented immigrants in the age of color-blindness: Millennials’ views from Kentucky

Not Stopping at First: Racial Literacy and the Teaching of Barack Obama

Invisible Black Politics: An Analysis of Black Congressional Leadership from the Inside

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