{"id":42488,"date":"2015-09-01T02:06:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T02:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42488"},"modified":"2015-09-01T02:06:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T02:06:44","slug":"in-this-book-we-set-the-post-racial-claims-into-relief-against-a-background-of-pre-and-post-election-racial-animus-directed-at-barack-obama%ef%bb%bf-his-administration-and-african","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42488","title":{"rendered":"In this book we set the \u201cpost-racial\u201d claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at Barack Obama\ufeff, his administration, and African Americans in general."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In this book we set the \u201cpost-racial\u201d claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>, his administration, and African Americans in general. In specific, we examine how racial fears, coded language, and explicit as well as implicit (automatic\/subconscious) racism are drawn upon and manipulated by the political Right. Racial meanings are reservoirs rich in political currency, and the Right\u2019s replaying of the \u201crace card\u201d still serves as a potent resource for \u201cothering\u201d the first black president in a context rife with nativism, xenophobia, racial fatigue, and white backlash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42458\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Wrongs of the Right: Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama<\/em><\/a>. (New York: New York University Press, 2015) 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this book we set the \u201cpost-racial\u201d claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at Barack Obama, his administration, and African Americans in general. In specific, we examine how racial fears, coded language, and explicit as well as implicit (automatic\/subconscious) racism are drawn upon and manipulated by the political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12235,12252,12233,12234],"class_list":["post-42488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-gregory-parks","tag-gregory-s-parks","tag-matthew-hughey","tag-matthew-w-hughey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42488","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=42488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42489,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42488\/revisions\/42489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}