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A fresh look at prejudice

November 8, 2008 By DEBORAH WAIRE POST Deborah Waire Post is a professor at Touro Law Center and co-president of the Society of American Law Teachers.

The victory of Barack Obama is widely seen as the culmination of the struggle by many blacks and whites, over many decades, to change the meaning of race in the United States. But does it mean, as some commentators have claimed, that we have become a "post-racial" society?

Looking back over the long campaign, I understand why Obama is often described as a man who "transcends" race. His first...

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