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  • The liberation of Barack Obama

    The liberation of Barack Obama The Washington Post 2013-01-20 E. J. Dionne Jr., Opinion Writer Barack Hussein Obama can begin his second term liberated by the confidence that he is already a landmark figure in American history. His task is not to manufacture a legacy but to leave his successors a nation that is more…

  • Michael Jeffries on the Cultural Significance of President Obama

    Michael Jeffries on the Cultural Significance of President Obama Wellesley College News Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 2013-01-18 New Book by Wellesley American Studies Professor Tackles Race in America Michael Jeffries, Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Assistant Professor of American Studies, studies race, gender, politics, identity, and popular culture. His new book, Paint the…

  • Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America

    Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America Stanford University Press 2013 224 pages 2 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780804780957 Paper ISBN: 9780804780964 E-book ISBN: 9780804785570 Michael P. Jeffries, Sidney R. Knafel Assistant Professor of American Studies Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Barack Obama’s election as the first black president in…

  • What should Multiracial people learn? Learning goals for anti-(mono)racist education

    What should Multiracial people learn? Learning goals for anti-(mono)racist education Paper presented at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 2012-11-01 6 pages Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst Political education has played important roles in many social movements. Philosopher Ronald Sundstrom has argued that Multiracial activists and community organizers have a…

  • “I Got Indian in my Family”~A Discussion on Indian Identity

    “I Got Indian in my Family”~A Discussion on Indian Identity Mixed Race Radio 2013-01-23, 17:00Z (12:00 EST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Dwanna L. Robertson University of Massachusetts, Amherst On today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio we will speak with Dwanna L. Robertson and discuss issues of Identity: What does it mean to be Indian in…

  • Editor who grew up black in Nazi Germany dies

    Editor who grew up black in Nazi Germany dies The Miami Herald 2013-01-21 Freida Frisaro, Associated Press MIAMI — Hans Massaquoi, a former managing editor of Ebony magazine who wrote a distinctive memoir about his unusual childhood growing up black in Nazi Germany, has died. He was 87. His son said Massaquoi died Saturday, on…

  • After the first black president, who will be second?

    After the first black president, who will be second? The Washington Post 2013-01-20 Vanessa Williams President Obama’s historic election in 2008 and his reelection last year proved decisively that race is no longer an insurmountable hurdle to high political office in the United States. But the current pool of possible candidates suggests that the next…

  • In short and simple ceremony, Obama starts his second term

    In short and simple ceremony, Obama starts his second term The Los Angeles Times 2013-01-20 Kathleen Hennessey WASHINGTON — With a quick and simple swearing-in ceremony at the White House, President Obama formally ended his first term in office Sunday and embarked on another four years leading a nation hobbled by a weak economy and…

  • Obama’s inauguration carries symbolic resonance on Martin Luther King Day

    Obama’s inauguration carries symbolic resonance on Martin Luther King Day The Guardian 2013-01-20 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist America’s first black president will be sworn in on the day devoted to its most famous civil rights leader In April 1961, four months before Barack Obama was born, Bobby Kennedy told Voice of America: “There’s…