Toban Black

(Photo by Albus Cavus)

Rainbows

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Anthony DiMaggio in CounterPunch -
“Transcending Race?”
“Obama’s Victory and the ‘End’ of Racism”

Lisa at the “Sociological Images” blog -
“CNN Pundit: Obama won, therefore racism is no longer a problem”

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The end of Ku Klux Klan racism -

[via Bastard Logic]

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Judith Siers-Poisson in CounterPunch -
“How Far Have We Really Come From the ‘One-Drop Rule’?”

( “Does framing [Obama] as America’s ‘first Black president’ show that we have not come nearly as far as we’d like to think? …”)

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More of Lois Stavsky’s
photos of grotesque co-optation (or would-be co-optation)
under and into the Obama campaign -

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(Photo by Lois Stavsky)

The Great White Hope!

… or so some (neo)liberal would have us believe

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Some people seem to think that Obama will bring radical change –
single-handedly!

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(From here)

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Andrew Gebhardt (in this article) -

“Many hope an Obama presidency will provide the antidote. In his historic campaign, ‘hope’ has been, unsurprisingly, the mot juste, along with ‘change’ and some other feel-good sentiments.”

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Raven at the skin coloured blog -
“normal to darker skin”
(A photo of a bottle of “body lotion”)    [via Sociological Images]

“chepchumba” at her jepchumba blog -
“500 yrs of Women In Art.. and none of them look like me.”
(… “These paintings are considered culturally significant to the western world” …)

Lisa at the Sociological Images blog -
“Ann Ducille on ‘ethnic’ barbies”

Red Jenny at her blog -
“Visual hybridity”
(… “These interesting photographs illustrate how we construct the race of people of blended heritage” …)

Lisa at the Sociological Images blog -
“Black and white twins”
(… “[an illustration of] how skin color (which is real) is translated into categorical racial categories (which are not)” …)

Lisa at the Sociological Images blog -
“A simple lesson on the social construction of race”
(… “if we consider a wide range of people, it becomes clear that skin color comes in a spectrum, not in categories” …)

“lenin” at the blog Lenin’s Tomb -
“The blackness of Dessalines”
(On one way in which racist hierarchies were subverted in Haiti during the early 1800s)

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(The image at the top of this post is part of John William Waterhouse’s painting “Ophelia”)

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A related post -
“One human race“