The racial identity politics of white men is absolutely central to the Republican success.
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Mr Obama realised that his post-racial identity was a golden ticket to the White House.
So their right to return is based on their position as citizens, not on their racial identity.
Obama keenly questioned Graf about how they were raising their children, how the children understood their racial identity.
And hip-hop music videos celebrate the "Thug Life" and "gansta" attitude for any young black person seeking strong racial identity.
It's perhaps the most effective way to police what they perceive as encroachments upon the "American" way of life in which white racial identity and heterosexuality remain the norm.
Forty-four per cent of minorities have experienced verbal abuse, almost a third have been the victims of criminal damage to property and one in 10 have been assaulted because of their racial identity.
The solution he proposes shows how much quotas could change Brazilians' sense of who they are: in doubtful cases a commission would verify students' racial identity, overthrowing the idea that a person's race is what he says it is.
The racial minorities look to identity politics as a means of self-respect and advancement - which the growing number of dual heritage individuals would seem to vitiate, while plenty of the white majority in this country remain good, old fashioned Alf Garnetts - they've just learned to be less blatantly toxic about it.
Emotions and frustrations are running high, and as we grapple to make sense of the tragedy, it is critical for all Americans to refrain from scapegoating any group of people or targeting innocent Americans based on their racial, religious and ethnic identity.
Then you've got people tying illegal immigrants to terrorist threats, to healthcare threats, avian flu and all the like, threats to racial balance of the country, national identity.
The former accused the Times of race baiting, while the latter worried that efforts to acknowledge the reality of racial and ethnic mixing could undermine the class identity politics that lie at the root of leftist activism.
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Instead of open racial attacks, they play up a threat to national identity and criticize multiculturalism, Feldman said.
Instead of open racial attacks, they play up a threat to national identity and criticize multiculturalism, particularly as it relates to Islam, Feldman said.
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