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| Other authors / contributors: | Harris, Heather E., editor.
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| ISBN: | 9781438474168
1438474164
9781438474151
1438474156
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2019).
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| Summary: | "Expanding the discourse about Barack Obama's two terms as President of the United States America, Perspectives of Neo-Race Realities in the Obama Era reflects upon the impact of neo-racism during his tenure. Continually in conversation with Etienne Balibar's conceptualization of neo-racism as being racism without race, the contributors to this volume examine how identities become the target of neo-racist discriminatory practices and policies in the US. Individual chapters attend, specifically, to how President Obama's multiple and intersecting identities, beyond the racial binaries of Black and White, were perceived as well as how his presence impacted certain marginalized groups in our society as a result of his administration's policies. Evidencing the hegemonic complexity of neo-racism in the US, these contributors illustrate how the mythic post-race society that many wished for on election night in 2008 was deferred in order to return to the uncomfortable comfort zone of the way America used to be"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Neo-race realities in the Obama era. Albany : State University of New York, [2019] 9781438474151
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