Our Unfinished Conversation
Our Unfinished Conversation
This chapter serves as a concluding discussion to the book, where it addresses the question as to how people know when something is racial or not. It revisits Barack Obama's campaign (as discussed in Chapter 4) and reviews whether or not that campaign was going to be solely “about race” or not. It then emphasizes that “racial” can be viewed as a collection of unconscious motivations, beliefs, or anxieties that can be generated or controlled by specific images or words. The chapter also stresses that most people have forgotten the uncertainties and ambiguities of race, which are two important characteristics of the national conversation.
Keywords: racial, Barack Obama, uncertainties, ambiguities, national conversation
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