The Pleasures & Perils of Race in the Post-Race Era

(October 24, 2009) What is the future of Blackness? How can we think about race in this "post-race" era? How does African & African American Studies in the 21st Century theorize about race in the 21st century?and how does AAAS--especially with its new campus-wide Race Forward Initiative contribute to the scholarly inquiry and intellectual life at Stanford for undergraduates, graduate students and faculty? Just what is the role of African American Studies as an academic field of research in the new millennium and at Stanford?

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[felpaluche]

Life is a race. It will always be.

[LiveWisely]

The ironic thing is that I learned how to be post race via trying to be a Southern gentleman. I no longer define myself as a Southerner (nor by gender), but being gentle means to have manners: to be respectful of all (think PC without the attitude), to think of the needs of one's community, to believe in and require the best in oneself and others (thus dress, move, eat, etc. in a fine way), etc.

This allowed me to be drawn to the character-based gentleness of Mother Teresa, Gandhi, MLK Jr.