[Vision2020] Interesting read on US culture, politics, and the "social construction of race"

[Warren Hayman]

It also isn't very long. Here's a bit from the middle:

"Obama's whiteness in this sense is frightening and strange for those invested in believing that racial categories are stable, meaningful and essential. Those who yearn for a postracial America hoped Obama had transcended blackness, but the real threat he poses to the American racial order is that he disrupts whiteness, because whiteness has been the identity that defines citizenship, access to privilege and the power to define national history."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100503/harris-lacewell
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