Obama and the Centrality of Race
by
ben pitcher
16 Nov '08 
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Comments(0) Apparently we all got carried away with Barack Obama. The excitement generated about race in the American election was, we are increasingly told, overblown. Sure, this was an important symbolic moment for black America, but our exhilaration now needs to be tempered with political realism lest the empty rhetoric of ‘change’ mask the stubborn continuity of more-of-the-same.
