Before We Embrace the Future: Assessing Where We've Been and Where We Are

Before We Embrace the Future: Assessing Where We've Been and Where We Are

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Before We Embrace the Future: Assessing Where We've Been and Where We Are

dc.contributor.author	Dawson, Michael
dc.contributor.author	Bobo, Lawrence
dc.date.accessioned	2011-02-10T18:35:32Z
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.identifier.citation	Dawson, Michael C. and Lawrence D. Bobo. 2008. Before we embrace the future: Assessing where we've been and where we are. Du Bois Review 5, no. 2: 213-216.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1742-058X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4724023
dc.description.abstract	Barack Obama was elected president of the United States shortly before this issue of the Du Bois Review went to press. The historic nature of the 2008 presidential campaign was evident early in the process, particularly as it became clear that the Democratic Party would nominate either a woman or an African American as its standard-bearer. As scholars who have devoted our professional lives to studying the cancerous effect that racial disadvantage has on American society and politics, we are well aware of the profound hope that many place in the president-elect. We are also aware of the many pitfalls and challenges that await not only President Obama but the nation as well, whose citizens must sort out the new (and old) features of the nation's increasingly complex racial terrain. We devote the next two issues of the Du Bois Review (volume 6, numbers 1 and 2) to scholarship focused on the 2008 presidential campaign and the implications of that campaign going forward. In this issue we focus on research assessing where we have been and where we are regarding racial dynamics within the United States.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	African and African American Studies	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Sociology	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Cambridge University Press	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X08080235	en_US
dash.license	OAP
dc.title	Before We Embrace the Future: Assessing Where We've Been and Where We Are	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Version of Record	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Bobo, Lawrence
dc.date.available	2011-02-10T18:35:32Z