ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of post-historical presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. Observers around the world and across the political spectrum decided that an old era was ending and a new one was dawning when Obama became the president of United States of America. The chapter discusses the general condition of being post-historical, in order to identify the broad framework that will govern the narrower discussions of race, partisanship, and political community. It explains about post-racialism, post-partisanship, and post-imperialism that employ the distinctive approach to temporality that philosophers and others now commonly signal with the prefix, "post-". The chapter provides arguments in relation to industrial civilization, urban spaces, soul culture, civil rights era, analytic philosophy, modern art practices, and, modernity itself. It presents the possibility that the significance of the Obama presidency is importantly tied to its role in making race matter less, or in making it clear that this shift had already taken place.
