What Race Has to Do With It.
Although strenuously denied by most involved, much of the discourse around the U.S. 2008 presidential campaign focused on issues of race. Then a senator for Illinois, President Barack Obama was beleaguered by accusations about his background and his church in a way that the white candidates involved...
| Publicado en: | Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine Vol. 60; no. 10; pp. 50 - 56 |
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March 2009
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