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

[keely emerinemix]

Thanks, Warren -- I look forward to reading the article.  Based on the piece you sent out, there are some important points to be made, and they apparently have been made very well.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




From: whayman at roadrunner.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:11:33 -0700
Subject: [Vision2020] Interesting read on US culture, politics,	and the "social construction of race"










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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