The Sept. 11 attack, however, for the most part pushed the races to the background, as several candidates suspended campaigning for a few weeks and then sought to gain the attention of voters fixated on the terrorism.
The kind of fury where everything that connects you to the human race fades into the background and you feel like you could almost kill.
So despite what dozens of experiments had appeared to show, this experiment created a situation where categorisation by race faded into the background.
They have given him that support, but with the price tag of putting the race thing in the background where it can be safely ignored.
So one study that we've been talking about doing for some time is instead of having two same-race dolls in the background of the photograph, have two different-race dolls.
In one office in Virgina, for example, the local campaign manager was Pakistani-American, the volunteers were of every race and background, the people heading out to handle the signup drive were Hispanic, and the event they were working on was a concert by Bruce Springsteen.
Ms. Manigat, 70, who was the top vote-getter in the first round in November, has portrayed herself as the adult in the race whose background as a college professor and administrator would make her a sober manager of the billions of dollars of international aid pledged to Haiti.
And what I remember is that the economy was going well, that the Labour prime minister was widely despised and that race lurked nastily in the background of an election that the Tories, under an unpopular leader and in defiance of the opinion polls, nevertheless won.
Drawing on personal stories and testimonies and illustrated with rarely seen stills, archive and location photography, The World's War dissects how the complexities of Empire and the hypocrisies of race played out against the background of a global struggle for dominance.
Gaming the system for racial advantage was not the singular, continuous, consuming passion for most Southerners; but slavery had warped the Southern political system from the start, and race forever lurked in the background of Southern political life.
