Race -2008-

The 2008 Summer Games provided a massive stage for the intersection of race, ethnicity, and national pride.

The central narrative of 2008 was the rise of Barack Obama. For many, his journey from a junior senator with a "funny name" to the first Black President of the United States was a watershed moment. race -2008-

If the political and economic races of 2008 were fraught with tension and anxiety, the athletic races offered a dazzling, if controversial, spectacle of human excellence. The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were positioned as China’s "coming out party," a race for global soft power supremacy. The 2008 Summer Games provided a massive stage