The black human head is smoothened, virtualized, colorized, and deracinated. Fairey's rendering of Obama is very much an image of The Face, inviting us to write ourselves into a new vision of America as a colorful, multiracial, postracial utopia. This is not just the post-racial body but also a new form of facialization that tries once again to color over the flesh with new codes and signifiers of a mediated blackness, the irreal images of a colorblind gaze. (204)