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Article: One Nation, After All; How Obama is changing racial politics in America.
- Article from:
- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 18, 2009
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WHAT OBAMA MEANS
For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future
By Jabari Asim
Morrow. 223 pp. $21.99Barack Obama's historic struggle to become
the nation's first black president is over, but the fight over the
meaning of his victory has only begun.
In What Obama Means -- one of what will certainly be many
efforts to interpret and define the Obama phenomenon -- Jabari
Asim argues that Obama's victory is the culmination of decades of
black political struggle, social advancement and cultural
achievement. Obama promises to continue this cultural transformation
with a new style of racial politics: more productive and less
antagonistic than that of the "charlatans and camera hogs with whom
we are ...