Day: February 18, 2011

  • I read the identitarian discourses surrounding Obama differently. The posing of these questions around identity betrays our subconscious recognition that we are not there yet—we remain burdened by a default racial calculus. Even the semantics of being post-racial reveals the persistence of race and racial constructions. We do not even have terminology, let alone the…

  • Racial Paradox and Eclipse: Obama as a Balm for What Ails Us Denver University Law Review Volume 86, Special Issue (Obama Phenomena: A Special Issue on the Election of President Barack Obama (2009) pages 743-783 Camille A. Nelson, Dean and Professor of Law Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts I. Introduction The 2008 political season provided us…