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Quanisea Moses February 11, 2014 Dr. Yousuf Article Review Reconstructing the "Problem" of Race By: Edmund Fong Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Dec., 2008), pp. 660-670â€Æ' Central Thesis In Reconstructing the â€Å"Problem† of Race an article written by Edmond Fong, he uses W.E.B Dubose’s The Souls of Black Folks, Woodrow Wilson’s 1913 Gettysburg Reunion Speech, Louis Harz’s The Liberal Tradition in America, and Rogers M. Smith’s Civic Ideas to help support his main points. The main point in this article understands the problem of race in American politics by examining its productive function by grounding the meaning of American liberalism. In the article the author sates that many doubt 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 putting together its ongoing productivity as a criticism mask for American politics. In Rogers M. Smit...