Somewhere over the rainbow? Post-racial & pan-racial politics in the age of Obama

Daedalus

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 136-150

  Lee, Taeku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 79955381604     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00083     Document Type: Article

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1. Michael Eric Dyson, "Race, Post Race," Los Angeles Times, November 5, 2008.
2. Shelby Steele, "America's Post-Racial Promise," Los Angeles Times, November 5, 2008.
3. See, for example, Tali Mendelberg, The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001).
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10. Zoltan Hajnal and Taeku Lee, Why Americans Don't Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011).
11. See, for example, Samuel Eldersveld, "The Independent Vote: Measurement, Characteristics, and Implications for Party Strategy," American Political Science Review 46 (3) (1952): 732-753.
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18. See, for example, Samuel Scheffler, The Rejection of Consequentialism: A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conceptions (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982).
19. and Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
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21. Virginia Held, The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
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23. Hajnal and Lee, Why Americans Don't Join the Party.
24. Fiorina with Abrams and Pope, Culture War?.
25. McCarty, Poole, and Rosenthal, Polarized America.
26. Luis Fraga, John A. Garcia, Rodney E. Hero, Michael Jones-Correa, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, and Gary M. Segura, Latino Lives in America: Making it Home (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010).
27. Janelle Wong, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, Taeku Lee, and Jane Junn, "Race-Based Considerations and the 2008 National Asian American Survey," Du Bois Review 6 (2009): 219-238.
28. Juan F. Perea, "The Black and White Binary Paradigm of Race: Exploring the 'Normal Science' of American Racial Thought," California Law Review 85 (1997): 1219.
29. See, for example, Richard D. Shingles, "Black Consciousness and Political Participation: The Missing Link," American Political Science Review 75 (1981): 76-91.
30. Lawrence Bobo and Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., "Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment," American Political Science Review 84 (1990): 377-393.
31. Michael C. Dawson, Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994).
32. Tommie Shelby, We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005).
33. See, for example, Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990).
34. Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
35. Ian Haney López, White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race (New York: New York University Press, 1996).
36. Gary Okihiro, Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994). David Hollinger takes a novel approach to such questions by proposing that we shift the referent from the experience of African Americans vis-à-vis the "one-drop rule" to the experience of white domination vis-à-vis the "one-hate rule".
37. David Hollinger, "The One Drop Rule and the One Hate Rule," Dædalus 134 (Winter 2005): 18-28.
38. Taeku Lee, "From Shared Demographic Categories to Common Political Destinies? Immigration and the Link from Racial Identity to Group Politics," Du Bois Review 4 (2008): 433-456.
39. Yen Le Espiritu, Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992).
40. Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996).
41. See, for example, Melissa Nobles, Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000).
42. Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005).
43. Kenneth Prewitt, "Race in the 2000 Census: A Turning Point," in The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals, ed. Joel Perlmann and Mary Waters (New York: Russell Sage, 2003), 357, 360.
44. For this and in remaining sections, the survey data are from the 2008 naas, the first nationally representative sample survey of the political behavior and attitudes of Asian Americans. It includes 5,159 interviews conducted between August 18, 2008, and October 29, 2008. The primary sample consisted of the six largest Asian national-origin groups (Asian-Indians, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, and Vietnamese), and respondents were interviewed in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Japanese, and Hindi. See Wong, Ramakrishnan, Lee, and Junn, "Race-Based Considerations."
45. Some of this difference is due to the relative proportion in the two samples of foreignborn respondents; 88 percent of the weighted sample of the naas is foreign-born, compared to 67 percent of the lns.
46. Dawson, Behind the Mule.