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Michael Walters: Alberta must reject U.S. racial politics

When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, many people wanted to believe America had crossed some great racial threshold. A Black man had won the presidency of a country whose history included slavery, segregation and generations of organized white supremacy. Maybe America was finally becoming post-racial. It wasn’t.

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Obama’s presidency instead exposed how deeply race remained embedded in American politics. Political scientists have since documented the racialization of the Obama years and the role racial resentment, xenophobia and anti-immigrant attitudes subsequently played in Donald Trump’s coalition. Research into the 2016 election found racial resentment and anti-immigrant sentiment were........

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