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Quanisea MosesFebruary 11, 2014Dr. YousufArticle ReviewReconstructing the Problem of RaceBy Edmund FongPolitical Research Quarterly, Vol. 61, nary(prenominal) 4 (Dec., 2008), pp. 660-670Central ThesisIn Reconstructing the Problem of Race an article written by Edmond Fong, he uses W.E.B Duboses The Souls of Black Folks, Woodrow Wilsons 1913 Gettysburg Reunion Speech, Louis Harzs The Liberal Tradition in America, and Rogers M. Smiths Civic Ideas to help support his main points. The main point in this article understands the problem of belt along in American politics by examining its productive function by grounding the meaning of American liberalism. In the article the author sates that many dubiety that there is still a problem with race in American politics, and even fewer doubt that it was a productive role in American History. Fong says that this article tries to show the economy of absence of and presence that connects racial discourse to American liberal national identity, by p utting together its ongoing productiveness as a criticism mask for American politics. In Rogers M. Smit...