Many Americans are invested in the idea of a "post-racial"
moment -- a moment marked by our purported movement beyond a
historical chapter colored by race-based discrimination,
intolerance, inequity, and violence. Such a turn signals
America's fascination with the notion of a transracial future
and a utopian vision of an America, where bodies will be free
from racialization. But, we must ask: whose bodies and lives
will this grand social vision benefit especially when
considering the counter-investment in notions of "blackness"
that post-racial propagandists seem to maintain? It is argued
that multiple gains have been made in the area of racial
relations since the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement.
Many of us witnessed the appointment of our country's 65th and
66th Secretaries of State, General Colin Powell and Condoleeza
Rice, the former was the first African-American and the latter
was the first African-American female, both were Republican. An
African-American man and woman, Bob Johnson and Oprah Wi