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"RACE IN THE AGE OF OBAMA"

 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- How have race relations in America evolved since the civil rights movement of the 1960's? Was the election of President Barack Obama a milestone in this regard? Did it truly serve as a turning point in America's history of racial inequality?

 

In the newly released issue of Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, guest editor Gerald Early and 14 leading humanists examine "Race in the Age of Obama." Through the lens of literature, politics and popular culture, their essays consider both recent progress and setbacks in American race relations.

Early, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, suggests that the national conversation about race today is as significant as it was in the 1960s, "when America seemed on the edge of a brave new world, poised for redefinition and ready to see itself anew."  

The election of Barack Obama "possessed the promise of bringing together what the late historian John Hope Franklin called 'the two worlds of race,'" writes Early.

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson described the "task" of civil rights as giving African Americans "the same choice as every other American to learn and work and share in society." This volume marks the 50th anniversary of the civil rights movement and the Academy's project on "The Negro American," a groundbreaking examination of the complexities and implications of mid-20th-century racial liberalism in the United States.

"This volume enriches the dialogue and sharpens our understanding of the meaning of racial majority and minority as political, social, and cultural terms," said Leslie C. Berlowitz, President of the Academy.

In April, the Academy will publish a companion issue to "Race in the Age of Obama." The second volume, "Race, Inequality & Culture," is guest edited by Harvard University sociologist Lawrence Bobo and features essays by 22 prominent social scientists.

Essays in the first volume include:

"The Two Worlds of Race Revisited: A Meditation on Race in the Age of Obama" by Gerald Early

"Freedom, Equality, Race" by Jeffrey B. FergusonAmherst College

"Racial Liberalism, the Moynihan Report & the Daedalus Project on 'The Negro American'" by Daniel GearyTrinity College Dublin

"Precious African American Memories, Post-Racial Dreams & the American Nation" by Waldo MartinUniversity of California, Berkeley

"Race & Inheritance in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father" by Glenda R. CarpioHarvard University

"On Post-Racial America in the Age of Obama" by Amina GautierDePaul University

"Justice & Racial Conciliation: Two Visions" by Tommie ShelbyHarvard University

"Race & the Tea Party" by Clarence WalkerUniversity of California, Davis

"At Last . . . ?: Michelle Obama, Beyonce, Race & History" by Farah Jasmine GriffinColumbia University

"Obligations to Negroes who would be kin if they were not Negro" by Werner SollorsHarvard University

"Poetry in a New Race Era" by Korina Jocson, Assistant Professor of Education, Washington University in St. Louis

"We dreamed a dream: Ralph EllisonMartin Luther King, Jr. & Barack Obama" by Eric J. SundquistJohns Hopkins University

"Seeing Jay-Z in Taipei" by Hua Hsu, Vassar College

"The Concept of Post-Racial: How Its Easy Dismissal Obscures Important Questions" by David A. HollingerUniversity of California, Berkeley

"Pursuit of the Pneuma" by James Alan McPhersonUniversity of Iowa Writers' Workshop

The volume also reprints John Hope Franklin's essay "The Two Worlds of Race: A Historical View," which originally appeared in Daedalus in Fall 1965.


Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. Current Academy research focuses on science and technology policy; global security; social policy; the humanities and culture; and education. With headquarters inCambridge, Massachusetts, the Academy's work is advanced by its 4,600 elected members, who are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs from around the world.

 


STORY TAGS: BLACK NEWS, AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWS, MINORITY NEWS, CIVIL RIGHTS NEWS, DISCRIMINATION, RACISM, RACIAL EQUALITY, BIAS, EQUALITY, AFRO AMERICAN NEWS

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