Your President Is (a) White (Supremacist): Post Obama and Black Feminist Politics

Abstract

For the majority of Black Americans—and, it must be said, for plenty of other Americans of color and for many white Americans, too—the transition of presidential power that occurred on January 20, 2017, was a devastating sociopolitical, cultural, and historic moment. It wasn’t simply the fact that America’s first Black President was leaving office after two terms, the end of an era that, for all its flaws, was still historically, socially, and politically significant.