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  • Obama Deception?: Empire, ‘Postracism’ and Hegemonic White Supremacy in the Campaign and Election of Barack Obama

    Obama Deception?: Empire, ‘Postracism’ and Hegemonic White Supremacy in the Campaign and Election of Barack Obama Critical Race Inquiry Volume 1, Number 2 (May 2011) ISSN: 1925-3850 Tamari Kitossa, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada The essay provides a socio-historical account of the role that hegemonic white supremacy played in the…

  • In visit to Ireland, O’Bama seeks to reverse U.S. notions of race

    In visit to Ireland, O’Bama seeks to reverse U.S. notions of race The Philadelphia Inquirer 2011-05-25 John Timpane, Inquirer Staff Writer President Obama’s one-day visit to Ireland was a masterly orchestration of three visuals – one imaginary, two very real. Imaginary visual: the apostrophe in O’Bama. “My name is Barack Obama,” he said in Dublin,…

  • Who Are We? Producing Group Identity through Everyday Practices of Conflict and Discourse

    Who Are We? Producing Group Identity through Everyday Practices of Conflict and Discourse Sociological Perspectives Volume 54, Number 2 (Summer 2011) pages. 139-162 DOI: 10.1525/sop.2011.54.2.139 Jennifer A. Jones, SBS Diversity Post Doctoral Fellow Ohio State University, Columbus Multiracials have the flexibility to opt out of multiracial identity, to shift identities depending on context and are…

  • The Mixing of Races and Social Decay

    The Mixing of Races and Social Decay Eugenics Review Volume 41, Number 1 (April 1949) pages 11–16 The Right Rev. E. W. Barnes, Sc.D., F.R.S. (1874-1953) Biship of Birmingham, England I have chosen to address you on a subject of great importance. With regard to it strong differences of opinion exist. As we consider various…

  • Half-Hearted Loving

    Half-Hearted Loving The Faculty Lounge: Conversations about law, culture, and academia 2011-06-13 Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Yesterday, June 12, marked the annual celebration of Loving Day.  This event commemorated the 1967 Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated the state’s Racial Integrity Act that prohibited interracial marriages.  Notably, Virginia’s…

  • Multiracial students and the evolution of affirmative action

    Multiracial students and the evolution of affirmative action Harvard Law & Policy Review 2011-06-17 Jay Willis Reduced to its elements, affirmative action is a relatively straightforward concept.  Colleges and universities consider an applicant’s racial and ethnic background to ensure that they enroll sufficient numbers of students from traditionally underrepresented groups. But schools are now grappling…

  • The Writer’s Almanac Podcast with Garrison Keillor [Charles Wadell Chesnutt]

    The Writer’s Almanac Podcast with Garrison Keillor [Charles Wadell Chesnutt] The Writer’s Almanac 2011-06-20 Garrison Keillor, Host Today in history and a poem or two. It’s the birthday of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (books by this author), born on this day in Cleveland (1858). His parents were free mixed-race Southerners who left Fayetteville, North Carolina, for…

  • Seeking Participants for a Multiracial Documentary

    Seeking Participants for a Multiracial Documentary We are in production on a documentary that looks into the subject of multiracial individuals. The director is an award winning filmmaker who has written on the multiracial issue in the Los Angeles Times. He is multiracial himself. This documentary will not repeat the multiracial clichés of the past and…

  • The Hudson River School via Cincinnati

    The Hudson River School via Cincinnati Chronogram: Arts, Culture, Spirit Kingston, New York 2011-05-28 Sparrow “History can be blind,” observes Joseph D. Ketner II, curator of “Robert S. Duncanson: ‘the spiritual striving of the freedmen’s sons,’” an exhibition at the Thomas Cole National Historical Site in Catskill. Duncanson (1821-1872) was an African-American landscape painter, once…

  • Obama’s Mixed Heritage: A Mother’s Perspective

    It’s an interesting historical moment to be a white mother of a Black child, as another white mother’s Black child is running for president of the United States. Who’d have thought?