Ao Yang
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ASA 002 A01
In this week, I was asked to read the reading material called that “Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian American and Hawai’i”. To be honest, this article helps me a lot to form some cognitions on politics and know more about the turning point of America’s political development, since I knew only a little on politics and did not have any interests on this area. Even though Obama was a black candidate of president, he overcame a series of difficulties and prejudices and finally succeeded in presidential election. There is no denying that the success of Obama’s presidential election could be defined as a turning point of America’s politics. It shows that the equity of races was improved, meanwhile, the discrimination on racism was eliminated step by step. One evidence to show this progress is that the dominant group of American-White American- also voted for Obama, which is a persuasive way to show cultural diversities. However, it is also true that the racial issues in USA are not resolved completely just by this event, which requires a long-time process.
My question is that to what extent racial discrimination could be eliminated completely in the United States?
References:
1. Okamura, J. Y. (2011). Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: Perspectives from Asian America and Hawai‘i. Patterns of Prejudice, 45(1-2), 133-153. doi:10.1080/0031322x.2011.563159
2. [Digital Image] Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/us/politics/obama-2018-campaign-trump.html
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