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They have attained their success in an atmosphere of lessened racism and are more concerned with the trappings of success and finding happiness than in worrying about race. In this way, Brown draws an implicit distinction between these modern-day black women and their mothers and grandmothers. “Implicit” is the key word here because unlike the post-racial embracers and post-racial deniers who I discuss below, Brown does not take a strong stand on the issue. She assumes that the women she describes are post-racial and moves on to the main point of her article.
He rejects, as sentimentality, the idea that white Americans’ willingness to vote for Obama marks a turn to a post-racial society, noting that this support results, instead, from frustration over the situation of urban blacks. To underscore his argument that black urban culture is dysfunctional, he views it through the lens of the Cosby Show, arguing that that situation comedy constituted an explicit attempt to counter black street culture with a model of a middle-class post-racial view of America.
Looking past the politics of race . . ending racial grievance . . looking past the black/white frame . . not playing the race card . . abandoning identity politics • internal dynamics of the black population . . discarding victimhood . . cultural problems • emphasizing coalition politics & inclusiveness • anti-affirmative action/stressing merit in upward mobility 56% Color blindness • color blindness . transcending race/ ignoring race/ lacking racial consciousness/ blurring identity lines/ race “incidental” or irrelevant .