The New Racial Dialogue: Arriving at Whiteness in the Age of Obama

As appeared in the Springer Nature Link on November 29th, 2008

My essay issues a challenge for whites to see the blackness of President-Elect Obama as a reflection of the similar complexity lying within themselves. By acknowledging the otherness within their whiteness, white Americans may finally grant themselves their race in a way that compels their much-needed participation in the national dialogue about race.