Title:	Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America Adding Context to Colorblindness
Authors:	Kristin Haltinner
Keywords:	Adding Context to Colorblindness
Issue Date:	2014
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	The election of Barack Obama is touted by many as a symbol of the United States’ movement towards a “post-racial” society. Yet, in the year after his election, there were elevated numbers of racially motivated hate crimes, with over 9,000 incidences(AP2008;FBI2008).Atthesametime,therehasbeenabroad,collective movement in opposition to progressive reform and civil rights for people of color and immigrants (Gonzales 2009; Bunch 2010). Nevertheless, political pundits, newspapercolumnists,andpoliticianshavewrittenatlengthaboutObama’selection as signifying a “post-racial” America – a vision of the United States as a society in which race no longer acts as a barrier to certain populations marginalized in the nation’s past (NPR 2009; Steele 2008). Scholars have also adopted this term in considering the implications of post-racial ideology on race theory (Nayak 2006) and the possibility of post-racial states
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/20583
ISBN:	978-94-007-7101-7
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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