2216 - The Obama Effect

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

This session focuses on how the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States offered a promise of social and political change within the country. However, this positively held belief by many Americans did not usher us into what some believed might be a post racial/political society. Thus, we are left with questions of race and change in the 21st century, like the issues we faced during the 20th century and the new doubling down of once hidden know seen issues associated with race and ethnicity.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Deborah K. King, Dartmouth College

Individual Presentations

• You Will Not Replace Us: Networked White Feelings in the Wake of the First Black President - Jessie Daniels, City University of New York-Hunter College and The Graduate Center

• Rethinking -- and Reinvesting in -- Race and Identity Politics in a Post-Obama Political Climate - Alford A. Young, University of Michigan

• Deconstructing the Politics of Hate: Militant Tiny Publics, Cultural Warfare, and the Destruction of Racial Progress - Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College

Discussant

• Deirdre Royster, New York University