Week 9 blog
Yuzhe Zhang, A01
Since Barak Obama became the
president of United States, his identity has been the talk of the town. There
are a number of countries and regions want to move closer to Obama. Such a phenomenon
has brought renewed attention to the relationship between race and politics,
although most people believe that racial prejudice has completely been diminished.
Appears on his face, Barak Obama
is a black man. In fact, he is a half African. He has an African-American father
(Though his father died when he was young). Obama’s mother is a white woman,
this is also indisputable. He was brought up in American high education, and
his classmates are all the upper whites. His two identities gave him a huge advantage
in the political competition. In order to win him over, some places gave Obama an
honorary citizen (like Hawaii), and some countries claimed that they have Obama’s
relatives (like China).
So here comes a question: Do
people tend to trust or support those who have the same identity with them? Or,
in other words, how much influence does race has in political competition?
Reference
Fletcher. M. A and Schreiber.
P (2016). The first family in focus. Facebook. Retrieved from https://theundefeated.com/features/the-first-family-in-focus/
Jonathan Y. Okamura (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
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