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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: post-racial

post-racial stories: 4 news summaries

NYC Pol Highlights Interracial Marriage—and Wins

One historian sees it as a 'post-Obama' moment

Oct 15, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill de Blasio's victory in the Democratic primary to be New York City's public advocate is a knock at the door of another racial hurdle. De Blasio’s wife is black, and his children interracial, a fact made clear in campaign ads and mailings. "For so long in American... More »

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New York City • campaign advertising • interracial marriage • President Obama • post-racial • political campaign • public office • Bill de Blasio • public advocate

ANALYSIS

A Post-Racial Society? Your Toddler Would Beg to Differ

Kids learn racial difference early, and parents aren't helping

Sep 6, 09 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Parents, if you think you’re raising color-blind children by avoiding open discussions on race, you’re wrong and could actually be doing the opposite, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman write in a lengthy Newsweek article exposing how babies really learn about racial difference. Many white parents shy away from... More »

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race • children • parents • race relations • racism • post-racial • desegregation • babies

OPINION

'Post-Racial' Proclamations Fizzle Fast

Gates incident, rise of birthers indicate issue's persistence

Aug 7, 09 12:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s election was supposed to be a healing moment, proof that we’re in a post-racial America. “Didn’t last very long,” writes Roger Simon of Politico. Today America seems as racially divided as ever. Exhibit A: the birthers, who say Obama’s “an alien... More »

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Barack Obama • race • race relations • post-racial • Henry Louis Gates Jr • birther

OPINION

'Mutt' Prez
Will Move US Beyond Equality

Obama vanquishes not just inequality, but old ideas of racial purity

Nov 24, 08 1:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Our enemies love using US racial divisions as a stick to beat Americans with, a stick “we’ve handed them over and over again,” writes Gregory Rodriguez in the Los Angeles Times. Now, Barack Obama gives us a crucial symbol of progress—and it won’t be because... More »

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Barack Obama • race relations • President Obama • post-racial

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