In his autobiography Dreams from My Father,President Obama describes his parents thus: "[my father] was black as pitch and my mother white as milk." The fact that we celebrate him as the U.S.'s first black president is consistent with our text's contention that "whiteness" is a category of difference that depends on ________ distinctions.

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The text argues that whiteness is constructed as a category of difference through visual distinctions, particularly the use of race as a visual marker for assigning value and power in society. In the case of President Obama, his mixed-race background highlights the ways in which racial categories are socially constructed and contextualized. Therefore, the fact that we celebrate him as the first black president is consistent with the idea that race is primarily a visual distinction used to construct categories of difference.

In His Autobiography Dreams from My Father,President Obama Describes His