Journal article
From Black Power to Hip Hop: Discussing Race, Policing, and the Fourth Amendment Through the "War on" Paradigm
The journal of gender, race, and justice, Vol.15(1), pp.47-80
01 Jan 2012
Abstract
Despite the longstanding history of race in America, the twenty-first century curiously purports to be an era of post-racialism. As support, it points to the first State of the Union address ever given by an African American President, Barack Obama. President Obama's ascendancy acknowledges our racial progress, but it is far from an uncomplicated celebratory milieu. While it is true that the convergence of racial progress and multicultural democracy marks this historical moment, claiming we are indeed post-racial overstates our reliance upon its significance. Rather than destabilize the basic notions of white superiority, the significance that we have a Black president, and thus the claim that we are post-racial, actually reinvigorates what Professor Joy James called "the disciplinary narratives of anti-black racism."
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- Title
- From Black Power to Hip Hop: Discussing Race, Policing, and the Fourth Amendment Through the "War on" Paradigm
- Creators
- Donald Tibbs
- Publication Details
- The journal of gender, race, and justice, Vol.15(1), pp.47-80
- Publisher
- University of Iowa, College of Law
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Identifiers
- 991021867239304721