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The Fragility of Post-Racial Ideology in American (Visual) CultureMain MenuThe Fragility of Post-Racial Ideology in American (Visual) CultureAuthors: Lucy Ashton, Raychel Justice, Anna Louie, Veronica LukeIntroduction"Post-Racial" America: The Vision, the Reality, and OriginsThe Origins of RaceVisual Culture: Tracing Post-Race Through Raced Erasby Anna LouieMixed-Race Individuals as Post-Racial Americans: The Convoluted Solutionby Veronica LukeRaychel Justice7d569c08a72dc0c42936afb202e72c04fc6e6ad4Anna Louie528dd99b30e44638c3237c044facfd595125a72eVeronica Luke1dfd3a64c5488c866a5ba5d6ddfea021a8396310Lucy Ashtonffe8c30d8c73ce8a97ce2e3ce8b444a842b37c67
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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12017-03-22T13:14:51-07:00Lucy Ashtonffe8c30d8c73ce8a97ce2e3ce8b444a842b37c67The Election of Obama10plain4067962017-03-22T14:36:41-07:00Lucy Ashtonffe8c30d8c73ce8a97ce2e3ce8b444a842b37c67