ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the future of race, the operation of racism and whiteness in the political sphere, immigration, hate groups, reparations, and racial reconciliation. It also explores the claim made by political pundits immediately after Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election that we are a postracial society. The chapter describes immigration and hate groups, which are evidence enough that race remains profoundly influential in our culture and that we are not postracial. Anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States (US) is often racialized and has increased dramatically with politicians proposing building walls along the US-Mexican border and with demands for more aggressive border patrols. The chapter deals with a challenge to popular notions that our country is postracial or that people are in any way color-blind, claims made immediately after the historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008. It concludes with a call toward color consciousness rather than falsely declaring ourselves to be color-blind.
