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<DIV>It also isn't very long. Here's a bit from the middle:</DIV>
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<DIV>"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."</DIV>
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