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  • On the Record: Georgetown and the racial identity of President Patrick Healy

    On the Record: Georgetown and the racial identity of President Patrick Healy The Georgetown Voice 2010-04-14 Patrick Healy Matt Sheptuck (COL ’10) is an American Studies major writing his senior thesis, which explores how Georgetown University has perceived Jesuit Father Patrick Healy’s racial identity over the years. In his research Sheptuck found that Healy, whom…

  • Honor and Effort: What President Obama Achieved in Eight Years

    Honor and Effort: What President Obama Achieved in Eight Years TIME 2016-12-22 David Von Drehle Brendan Smialowski—Getty Images Barack Obama smiles while speaking during the 36th annual National Italian American Foundation Gala on Oct. 29, 2011. Barack Obama entered the White House as something new in American history. He wasn’t chosen on the basis of…

  • How Barack Obama Failed Black Americans

    How Barack Obama Failed Black Americans The Atlantic 2016-12-22 William A. Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics; Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity Duke University The country’s first black president never pursued policies bold enough to close the racial wealth gap. Born…

  • Walsh says race backlash in part led to Trump win

    Walsh says race backlash in part led to Trump win The Boston Globe 2016-12-20 Meghan E. Irons, Reporter Mayor Martin J. Walsh, taking on a contentious issue rippling across the country, said Tuesday that he believes the election of Donald Trump was in part due to a backlash against the nation’s first black president. “I…

  • Three movies this year show Virginia’s racial history. In short, it’s complicated.

    Three movies this year show Virginia’s racial history. In short, it’s complicated. The Washington Post 2016-12-22 Stephanie Merry, Reporter Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving in the movie “Loving.” (Ben Rothstein/Focus Features) “Loving” shows Virginia at its most romantic and picturesque. Toward the beginning of the drama, a man takes his…

  • How Obama’s unique background shaped his outlook on race

    How Obama’s unique background shaped his outlook on race PBS NewsHour 2016-12-21 Judy Woodruff, Co-Anchor & Managing Editor The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates has criticized President Obama’s policies toward black Americans. Perhaps for that reason, he was invited to discuss such issues with Mr. Obama several times throughout the president’s second term. As part of a…

  • Review: In New Biopic ‘Barry,’ The Real Obama Remains Hidden

    Review: In New Biopic ‘Barry,’ The Real Obama Remains Hidden Newsweek 2016-12-16 Tom Shone While President Barack Obama decides on his future—a return to his roots as a community organizer? A de facto leader for the Trump resistance? More writing?—pop culture has stepped in to give him the Mount Rushmore treatment. First we had Southside…

  • Children’s and Adults’ Predictions of Black, White, and Multiracial Friendship Patterns

    Children’s and Adults’ Predictions of Black, White, and Multiracial Friendship Patterns Journal of Cognition and Development Published online: 2016-11-22 20 pages DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2016.1262374 Steven O. Roberts, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Psychology University of Michigan Amber D. Williams, National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow University of Texas, Austin Susan A. Gelman, Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of…

  • How ‘Barry’ Gets Obama Right—And Wrong

    How ‘Barry’ Gets Obama Right—And Wrong Newsweek 2016-12-21 Matthew Cooper, Political Editor President Barack Obama during a White House news conference in Washington, December 16. A new Netflix production, “Barry,” charts his college years in New York, when “Barry,” as he was known, wrestled with his racial identity. JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS There’s less than a month…

  • New Book Confronts Colorism in 21st Century America

    New Book Confronts Colorism in 21st Century America NBC News 2016-12-21 Lesley-Ann Brown “The Masque of Blackness” (1605) is an early Jacobean era “masque” — a popular form of 16th & 17th century amateur dramatic theatre — and is quite possibly the first instance in English literature where the topic of skin color is not…