The End of Race?: Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America by Kinder Donald R

Author:Kinder, Donald R. [Kinder, Donald R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

This quotation appears in a story in the New York Times, based on a CBS/New York Times poll of tea party supporters in April 2010.

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THE END OF RACE?

Because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds will someday pass; that the lines of tribes will soon dissolve.

—President Barack Obama

In this final chapter, we summarize our results and draw out their implications. We take up a series of distinct but interconnected subjects, each of which illuminates some aspect of the tangled relationship between social difference and American democracy: why race plays a larger role in contemporary American politics than gender; the ways religion has declined as an organizing principle of politics—and the ways it has not; the prospects for moving past race; the progress America has made in overcoming prejudice so far; the difference between traditional and modern forms of American prejudice; and finally, why—short of a transformation in political will—race is likely to remain a powerful force in American political life into the foreseeable future.

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