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JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES
卷 40, 期 3, 页码 411-425出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0021934709352991
关键词
postracial thinking; rhetoric of hope; race; postracism; James Baldwin; inequality; capital of hope
Many scholars across racial lines argue that the historic election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States marks the dawning of a postracial era in our country. Despite this claim and unprecedented enthusiasm that abounds within African American circles about the direction of race relations in this country, there seems to be a glaring ideological disconnect between the desire and reality of a race-free society. Focusing attention on this disconnect and the symbolic capital of hope that Obama's presidency constitutes for the Black community, this article exposes the potential pitfalls of wholesale investment in postracial thinking, particularly for the most economically vulnerable African American populations. Chief among the questions that the authors ask is how African Americans can productively address the continuing challenges of race-centric oppression under an Obama administration that is itself an embodiment of this postrace thinking.
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