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  • Obama’s race still has bearing on media coverage

    Obama’s race still has bearing on media coverage The Louisiana Weekly 2012-09-04 Nadra Kareem Nittle, Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Maynard Institute) – Long before a little-known Illinois politician ran for president, the mainstream media focused on his race. When he flourished as a presidential candidate four years ago,…

  • Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building (review)

    Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building (review) The Americas Volume 62, Number 2, October 2005 pages 280-281 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2005.0157 Nancy E. Castro University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building. By Debra J. Rosenthal. Chapel Hill: University…

  • Lessons From a Preservice Teacher: Examining Missed Opportunities For Multicultural Education in an English Education Program

    Lessons From a Preservice Teacher: Examining Missed Opportunities For Multicultural Education in an English Education Program Networks: An On-line Journal for Teacher Research Volume 41, Number 1 (Spring 2012) 10 pages Amy M. Vetter, Assistant Professor Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education, School of Education University of North Carolina, Greensboro Jeanie Reynolds, Lecturer/Director of…

  • PARADE Exclusive: A Conversation With the Obamas

    PARADE Exclusive: A Conversation With the Obamas Parade Magazine 2012-09-12 Lynn Sherr, Contributor Maggie Murphy, Editor in Chief President and Mrs. Obama photographed in the White House Map Room on Aug. 10. [Photo: Ben Baker] You hear him before you see him. After a hearty hello to the men and women working on the ground…

  • Is Obama still black?

    Is Obama still black? Aljazeera 2012-09-06 Harvey Young, Associate Professor of Theatre, Performance Studies; African American Studies; Radio/Television/Film Studies Northwestern University (also Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University) Barack Obama, to many, is not “as noticeably” or, perhaps, “meaningfully black as he once was”, writes Young. Race…

  • Rep. Mike Honda: Obama is First Asian-American President

    Rep. Mike Honda: Obama is First Asian-American President U.S. News & World Report 2012-09-05 Lauren Fox, Political Reporter The details of Bill Clinton’s youth, along with a number of his hobbies while in the White House, often led some people to call Clinton “America’s first black president.” Now that the country’s actual first black president…

  • The Dougla in Trinidad’s Consciousness

    The Dougla in Trinidad’s Consciousness History in Action: Online Journal of The University of the West Indies (St. Augustine. Trinidad and Tobago) Dept. of History Volume 2, Number 1 (April 2011) 7 pages ISSN: 2221-7886 Feme Louanne Regis University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad is a complex multi-ethnic society where…

  • Four years later, Barack Obama still a mystery in some ways

    Four years later, Barack Obama still a mystery in some ways The Dallas Morning News 2012-09-01 From staff and wire reports File: The welcome in Austin in 2007 was warm and Texan for presidential candidate Barack Obama. Still somewhat unknown Even after four years as president, Barack Hussein Obama remains unknown in some ways. He…

  • Roots: Saint Lucia’s Hindu Legacy

    Roots: Saint Lucia’s Hindu Legacy Hinduism Today October/November/December 2012 Gajanan Nataraj Saint Lucia I am a Saint Lucian citizen. I was born in the US Virgin Islands and lived briefly on the mainland (USA), but for the better part of 23 years I was raised on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. I am roughly two-quarters…

  • Latinos may get own race category on census form

    Latinos may get own race category on census form The Seattle Times 2012-08-30 Lornet Turnbull, Staff Reporter Under proposed changes under consideration by the Census Bureau in its once-a-decade census forms, Latino and Hispanic would be added to the list of government-defined races, rather than being listed separately as an ethnicity. And people from the…