Vincent Hutchings discusses the difficult terrain black presidential candidates face after Barack Obama
April 3, 2019
“After Barack Obama, they are facing voters that want more than symbols when it comes to race. … As a black person trying to become president, it’s a difficult terrain to travel that is bound up in questions about your background, history and policies. They are talking about race more and doing it in more specific terms,” said Vincent Hutchings, professor of political science and Afroamerican and African studies, on the presidential candidacies of Kamala Harris and Cory Booker.