{"id":20630,"date":"2012-02-14T04:13:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20630"},"modified":"2012-02-14T04:16:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:16:39","slug":"post-racial-americans-and-race-in-the-age-of-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20630","title":{"rendered":"Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post-Racial? Americans and Race in the Age of Obama<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Greenlining Institute<\/a>
\nBerkeley, California
\nNovember 2011
\n26 pages<\/p>\n

Dr. Daniel Byrd<\/strong><\/a>, Research Director<\/p>\n

Bruce Mirken<\/a><\/strong>, Media Relations Coordinator<\/p>\n

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Since the election of Barack Obama<\/a> as the United States\u2019 first African American president, there has been much discussion of whether this means the U.S. has become a \u201cpost-racial\u201d society. Does race still matter in America? This question is particularly significant in light of the fact that within about three decades, people of color are projected to become the majority. Policy based on mistaken assumptions could cripple efforts to revive the U.S. economy. Using the most definitive survey data available, we investigated perceptions of race in America among different racial and ethnic groups and how those perceptions compare to measurable realities of U.S. society.<\/p>\n

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