{"id":25019,"date":"2012-08-28T03:12:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T03:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25019"},"modified":"2012-08-28T03:13:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T03:13:32","slug":"a-response-to-ben-pitchers-%e2%80%9cobama-and-the-politics-of-blackness-antiracism-in-the-%e2%80%98post-black%e2%80%99-conjuncture%e2%80%9d-rickey-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25019","title":{"rendered":"A Response to Ben Pitcher’s \u201cObama and the Politics of Blackness: Antiracism in the \u2018post-black\u2019 Conjuncture\u201d [Rickey Hill]"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Response to Ben Pitcher’s \u201cObama and the Politics of Blackness: Antiracism in the \u2018post-black\u2019 Conjuncture\u201d [Rickey Hill]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society<\/a>
\nVolume 12, Issue 4<\/a> (2010) (Post-Racial Politics and Its Discontents)
\npages pages 347-350
\nDOI: 10.1080\/10999949.2010.526058<\/a><\/p>\n

Rickey Hill<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Social Science
\nMississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, Mississippi<\/em><\/p>\n

There is no “post-Black conjuncture<\/a>.” Neither are we, in the United States, living in a post-racial moment. The coming of Barack Hussein Obama<\/a> as the first Black person to be elected president of the United States has not signaled the end of racial domination as practice or racism as ideology. Racial domination continues to structure the lives of Black people and other nonwhite people in American society. Racism remains the active ideology that rationalizes institutional life and pervades the public and private spheres of interactions and reactions between people of color and the dominant white group. To be sure, Black people and other nonwhite people also suffer because the vast majority of them occupy the lower rungs of the economic ladder. However, while class is a determinant to economic wherewithal and access, race remains the dominant contradiction in the great socioeconomic divide.<\/p>\n

Despite racial domination, and because of it. Blackness<\/em> strives as a concrete cultural, psychological, political, and social force. Contrary to Pitcher’s<\/a> thinking, “Obama’s claim on Blackness” is not “delimited by his not having been born to the descendants of slaves.” Obama’s claim on Blackness is instead enhanced because…<\/p>\n

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A Response to Ben Pitcher’s \u201cObama and the Politics of Blackness: Antiracism in the \u2018post-black\u2019 Conjuncture\u201d [Rickey Hill] Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 12, Issue 4 (2010) (Post-Racial Politics and Its Discontents) pages pages 347-350 DOI: 10.1080\/10999949.2010.526058 Rickey Hill, Professor of Social Science Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,394,20],"tags":[7716,11673,2751,11672,1995],"class_list":["post-25019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-ben-pitcher","tag-rickey-hill","tag-souls","tag-souls-a-critical-journal-of-black-politics","tag-souls-a-critical-journal-of-black-politics-culture-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}