"What do you think is meant by the term 'post-racial' and how far
do you think we've come, as a country, toward achieving it?" Helen
Fox, a white teacher and scholar, asked variations of this question
to 87 high school and college students, educators, administrators,
community organizers, international visitors, and tribal leaders
across the country. Their stories reveal how far we are from a
"post-racial" ideal - even in the most liberal of communities.
Despite her long experience as an anti-racist educator, Fox was
surprised to learn how deeply the lives of people of color continue
to be shaped by race, and how hard they have to work to ignore or
overcome assumptions, remarks, exclusion, and at times, blatant
hostility from whites. The kinds of racism they experience depend
on their gender, their religion, their geographical location, their
skin tone, their forms of speech and expression, their
socioeconomic class, their aspirations, their determination to be
outspoken or stoic, the kinds and amount of contact they choose to
have (or can't escape having) with whites, and of course, their
ascribed race. Despite our nation's "post-racial" climate,
racialized assumptions, beliefs, and denials affect everything,
from the reach of the national media down to the smallest
community: the street where one lives, the friends one attempts to
make, the social club, the study group, the classroom. As an art
educator remarked, "The 'post-racial' reminds me of the post-modern
- the fracturing of things. It's not like our society has finally
come together - unless we've come together as a fractured society
and we're feeling the prickliness of the broken shards."
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