Post-Racialization Of Race

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The Civil Rights Act of 2015 builds on the knowledge of racialization of crime and punishment and color-blind racism by effectively providing measurable data that exposes unconscious racial bias within individuals, especially those in positions of power. Since the election of President Barack Obama, there has been a new phenomenon that has been dubbed as the current state of race in this nation, post-racial society. Lydia Lum, in “The Obama Era: A Post-racial Society?” (2009), defines a post-racial society, as a society that “race matters much less than it used to, that the boundaries of race have been overcome, that racism is no longer a big problem” (p.1). However, if we were to review the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, and the sentencing