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A candid discussion of the confines of the term "post-racial"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Landscape of Race in the 21st Century 2 Post-race American Triumphalism and the Entrenchment of Colorblind Racial Ideology 3 Rooted in the Black Community but Not Limited to It: The Perils and Promises of the New Politics of Race 4 Contesting Gender and Race in the 2008 Democratic Primary 5 The Trope of Race in Obama's America 6 Asian and Latino Voters in the 2008 Election: The Politics of Color in the Racial Middle 7 In Defense of the White Nation: The Modern Conservative Movement and the Discourse of Exclusionary Nationalism 8 Racial Politics under the First Black President Notes References Index About the Author

About the Author

Enid Logan is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.

Reviews

"Innovative scholar Enid Logan provides us with a provocative assessment of a starkly dramatic moment of U.S. history, the pathbreaking election of the first black president, Barack Obama." Joe R. Feagin, author of The White Racial Frame "Logan's work captures the sea change that is taking place in how we talk and think about race and what the election of our first black president means in terms of how we conceptualize racial hierarchy, social mobility and racial equality in the near future." Charles A. Gallagher, author of Rethinking the Color Line