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Changing the Race: Racial Politics and the Election of Barack Obama
 election_thumb_2.jpgEdited by Linda Burnham, Changing the Race: Racial Politics and the Election of Barack Obama, features 20 prominent thinkers and activists on race and the 2008 election.
 
 
This 86-page edited volume comprises a collection of thoughtful essays analyzing the complexities of how race played out in the presidential race. These writers identify the trends, the lessons, the facts and the lies. This election reader was edited by Linda Burnham, cofounder of the Women of Color Resource Center.

The 16 essays in Changing the Race include:

  • “It’s A New Day” by Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation author Jeff Chang

  • “Biracialism and the 2008 Elections” by The Ruckus Society executive director Adrienne Maree Brown

  • “Swinging Virginia in Roanoke” by The Nation and Guardian (UK) columnist Gary Younge

  • “The Immigrant Rights Agenda and the 2008 Elections” by National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights executive director and cofounder Catherine Tactaquin

  • “Obama’s Candidacy: The Advent of Post-Racial America and the End of Black Politics?” by Women of Color Resource Center cofounder Linda Burnham
 
Race is a defining factor in the way our society is structured and in the way our elections and politics are contested. Much progress has been made since the Civil Rights era, but much ground has also been lost. The popular notion of racism as personal prejudice ignores the historic and systemic inequities that continue to produce everyday benefits and burdens based on race.
 

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