What Happened From Post Racial America - 1234 Words

Daniel Josà © Older, Ward Connerly, David Theo Goldberg, and Binyavanga Wainaina wrote four, somehow related, articles. Each of them with both same and different points of view, wrote articles of a similar topic; race. Some key concepts about racialization in America that Connerly, Goldberg, Older, and Wainaina present are color-blindness, othering, and erasure. Color-blindness, meaning no more preferences, had a wide range of views from these authors. Connerly, author of â€Å"What Happened to Post-Racial America?†, is for this idea of color-blindness. Connerly mentions, near the end of his article, â€Å"he [president Obama] should urge Americans to embrace the color blind vision of John F Kennedy who said that ‘race has no place in American life or law†. 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