The Fragility of Post-Racial Ideology in American (Visual) Culture

From “Post-Racialism” during the Obama era, to Racism and White Supremacy during the Trump Era

 

    Unfortunately, the idea that America has reached a post-racial society erases the fact that we cannot escape the history of racism that White Americans have created to oppress people of color. These racist ideologies that were once very overt and situated in the daily lives of Americans, have become more subtle and less noticed and have transformed into an institutionalized form of racism, where these racist ideologies have been transcribed into the political, social, and economic realms of America. The systemic racism seen today in America, with hits hidden agenda, has led to the belief that we are living in a post-racial moment, leading many white Americans to believe that issues that disproportionately affect people of color in the United States do not have to with race. Through examining the timeline and its accompanying visual culture that surrounded of the election of President Obama, and his two terms in office, to the election of Donald Trump and the aftermath that is currently unraveling, exposes how the U.S. population believed that America had achieved post-racialism after the election of Obama and how that belief has been transformed and been rejected following the years up until the election of Donald Trump, where we are now at our furthest from post-racial thinking.

  

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