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  • The more things change, the more they stay the same

    The more things change, the more they stay the same Thinking Twice: RACE The Stanford Review 2009-01-29 C. Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Stanford University Last week, we inaugurated our first African American president, and coincidentally our first mixed race president, and our…

  • Why Obama is Black Again

    Why Obama is Black Again Thinking Twice: RACE The Stanford Review 2009-01-29 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University Barack Obama’s inauguration was for so many an awe-inspiring, historic and transnational event: It was full of grand pageantry and a good-humored…

  • Questions for Maya Soetoro-Ng: All in the Family

    Questions for Maya Soetoro-Ng: All in the Family The New York Times 2008-01-20 Deborah Solomon Q: Let’s talk about the Democratic presidential caucuses taking place on Feb. 19, in Hawaii, where Barack Obama was born. Will you be campaigning for your brother? Yes, of course. I have taken time off from my various teaching jobs…

  • Obama’s Mixology

    For different reasons, this same identity question has also had some traction with people of color, many of whom worry that Obama will usher in what Danzy Senna calls the “mulatto millennium,” especially if it implies that, as some of Obama’s supporters chanted earlier this year, “race doesn’t matter.”…

  • ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar)

    ENGLISH 261E: Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (seminar) Stanford University Department of English Winter Quarter, 2010-2011 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Grant Parker, Associate Professor of Classics Stanford Univeristy As scholar Werner Sollors recently suggested, novels, poems,…

  • Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family

    Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family University of Chicago Press 2004 200 pages 22 halftones, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Cloth ISBN: 9780226318219 Paper ISBN: 9780226318233 Ronne Hartfield In her prologue to Another Way Home, Ronne Hartfield notes the dearth of stories about African Americans who have occupied the area of…

  • Barack Obama and the Charm of the Stranger

    Barack Obama and the Charm of the Stranger The Zeleza Post 2009-01-25 Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Associate Professor of Africana Studies San Diego State University What is source of Barack Obama’s charm? Why was he able to win over whites, blacks and Latinos in a country that is famously partisan? Arguably, there are politicians who are…

  • We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity

    We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity Harvard University Press 2005 336 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780674025714 Tommie Shelby, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy Harvard University 2005 New York Magazine Best Academic Book African American history resounds with calls for black unity. From abolitionist…

  • Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity

    Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity Duke University Press 2008 264 pages 5 photographs, 2 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Wesleyan University In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those…

  • Blackness, Hypodescent, and Essentialism: Commentary on McPherson and Shelby’s “Blackness and Blood”

    Blackness, Hypodescent, and Essentialism: Commentary on McPherson and Shelby’s “Blackness and Blood” Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy Volume 1, Number 1, May 2005 Gregory Velazco y Trianosky, Professor of Philosopy California State University, Northridge In their fascinating and thoughtful paper, McPherson and Shelby seek to defend everyday African American understandings of their own identity…