{"id":347,"date":"2008-10-31T15:31:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T21:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=347"},"modified":"2008-10-31T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T21:32:32","slug":"sociologist-says-obama-is-raceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/10\/31\/sociologist-says-obama-is-raceless\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;sociologist says Obama is raceless&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Daquella manera on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/62518311@N00\/2987492208\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3165\/2987492208_66795f42d2_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Obey\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/newpittsburghcourieronline.com\/articlelive\/articles\/42382\/1\/Sociologist-says-Obama-is-raceless\/Page1.html\">New Pittsburgh Courier<\/a> ran a story about sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva&#8217;s recent lecture in which he discussed how presidential candidate Barack Obama is &#8220;not the symbol many perceive him to be.&#8221; The story ran under the headline &#8220;Sociologist Says Obama is Raceless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/newpittsburghcourieronline.com\/articlelive\/articles\/42382\/1\/Sociologist-says-Obama-is-raceless\/Page1.html\">Courier<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>\u201cSymbols work in many directions,\u201d said Bonilla-Silva, a sociology professor at Duke University. \u201c(Obama\u2019s) going to be a truncated symbol; both segments happy, but for totally different reasons\u2014we have to understand what does it mean for Black communities and White communities.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHe discussed \u201cnew-racism,\u201d meaning \u201cthe post-civil rights racial system of subtle, institutionalized, and apparently non-racial practices that maintains White supremacy and its accompanying racial ideology of color-blind racism.\u201d\u00a0Instead of seeing Obama as the end of this racism, Bonilla-Silva said his campaign success has been based largely on his ability to appear raceless. Although he admitted Obama could be a good role model, Bonilla-Silva said it is more important for him to create \u201creal change.\u201d &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/newpittsburghcourieronline.com\/articlelive\/articles\/42382\/1\/Sociologist-says-Obama-is-raceless\/Page1.html\">Read more<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eduardo Bonilla-Silva was also a contributing writer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesocietypages.org\">Contexts Magazine<\/a>&#8216;s feature on the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/obama\/\">Social Significance of Barack Obama<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0Take a look at Bonilla-Silva&#8217;s commentary, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/obama\/2008\/07\/15\/will-change-happen-in-obamerica\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Pittsburgh Courier ran a story about sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva&#8217;s recent lecture in which he discussed how presidential candidate Barack Obama is &#8220;not the symbol many perceive him to be.&#8221; The story ran under the headline &#8220;Sociologist Says Obama is Raceless.&#8221; The Courier reports: \u201cSymbols work in many directions,\u201d said Bonilla-Silva, a sociology professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39112,154,39115,39111],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-culture","tag-political","tag-politics","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}