Saturday, November 3, 2012

Shift in proportion of white, minority vote could decide Obama-Romney race - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill | TheHill.com

According to exit polls from 2008, Obama lost the white vote to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by 12 percentage points (43 to 55 percent). But Obama won black voters overwhelmingly (95 to 4 percent) and Hispanic voters by more than a two-to-one margin (67 to 31 percent).


http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/265515-ethnic-mix-of-electorate-gives-campaigns-sleepless-nights


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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Mark Anthony Neal: Color-Blind Racism in the Obama Era

Mark Anthony Neal: Color-Blind Racism in the Obama Era

Left of Black host and Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studios by Eduardo Bonilla Silva, Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at Duke University. Neal and Bonilla-Silva, the author of the now classic Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, discuss the Obama Presidency, the importance of a social justice politics, and the insidiousness of "color-blind" racism.