After Obama was elected, people often affirmed that America was entering a “post race” era, but maybe this only a superficial understanding of the political climate. Maybe we are entering a new era of racial understanding; one that is characterized by the existence of a “post race” era but rather one based on the myth of a “post race” era.

Michel Foucault often said that we should understand society as it relates to various rotating seats of power and how power structures can be used as a form of social control through social institutions. Power is everywhere and in everything.