Racial Politics After Obama.

RACE & society; OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; RACIALIZATION; AGONISM (Political science); CLINTON, Bill, 1946-; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; PRACTICAL politics; POLITICAL science; UNITED States politics & government, 21st century

The article discusses the racial politics after the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama. It states that the intense racialization of politics and the eruption of agonistic identity politics across partisan divides will be the challenges of post-Obama era. It notes that the racial politics of the administration of Obama has fractured the agreements that prevailed in the domain through the eras of administration of former U.S Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. It mentions that Obama's administration reshaped the landscape of racial politics in a way that is difficult to imagine eight years ago.