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  • Whiteness in the Age of Obama

    Whiteness in the Age of Obama The Huffington Post 2012-11-26 Jedediah Purdy, Professor of Law Duke University Recall the numbers: 59 percent of white voters supported Romney. More dramatically, 88 percent of his votes came from whites. One simple but plausible analysis suggested that Obama won a majority of white votes only in New England,…

  • American Voters Are Getting All Mixed Up

    American Voters Are Getting All Mixed Up Dog Park: Media Unleased 2012-11-20 Leighton Woodhouse, Founding Partner As anybody with a TV, radio or newspaper subscription can affirm, the big story coming out of the 2012 election is the long feared/eagerly awaited arrival of the Latino Vote as a national political force capable of deciding a…

  • Political Racism in the Age of Obama

    Political Racism in the Age of Obama The New York Times 2012-11-10 Steven Hahn, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History University of Pennsylvania The white students at Ole Miss who greeted President Obama’s decisive re-election with racial slurs and nasty disruptions on Tuesday night show that the long shadows of race still…

  • Indigenous Giles stands by Abbott

    Indigenous Giles stands by Abbott NT News Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia 2012-11-15 Nigel Adlam TERRITORY indigenous politician Adam Giles has refused to condemn Tony Abbott. Mr Abbott said Alison Anderson was an “authentic representative” of ancient Central Australian culture but mixed-race MP Ken Wyatt was “not a man of culture”.   Mr Giles also refused…

  • “At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race

    “At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race New York University Press October 2011 229 pages Hardback ISBN: 9780814752975 Paperback ISBN: 9780814752982 Enid Lynette Logan, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota, Minneapolis In January 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States.  In the weeks…

  • A Milestone Election

    A Milestone Election Weekend Reader Hannah Arendt Center Bard College 2012-11-09 Roger Berkowitz, Associate Professor of Political Studies, Human Rights, and Philosophy; Academic Director, Hannah Arendt Center Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York The re-election of Barack Obama is a milestone. Barack Obama will always be remembered as the first black President of the United States.…

  • Parallels to country’s racist past haunt age of Obama

    Parallels to country’s racist past haunt age of Obama Cable News Network In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-11-01 John Blake, CNN This is the second in an occasional series on issues of race, identity and politics ahead of Election Day, including a look at the optics of politics, a white Southern Democrat…

  • Race Under the Microscope: Biological Misunderstandings of Race

    Race Under the Microscope: Biological Misunderstandings of Race Center for Genetics and Society 2012-05-24 Despite the fact that advances in genetics undermine the notion that discrete and distinct racial groups exist at the biological level, the science of genetics is inadvertently reinforcing the myth that race is a biological, rather than a social, category. In…

  • Obama’s second victory is more low key, but in some ways more impressive

    Obama’s second victory is more low key, but in some ways more impressive The Guardian London, England 2012-11-07 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist The euphoria of 2008 has gone, but the US president’s second win is remarkable precisely because it is not as symbolic Harold Davies didn’t cry this time. Four years ago when…

  • No longer your father’s electorate

    No longer your father’s electorate Los Angeles Times 2012-11-08 Paul West, Washington Bureau Obama’s reelection marks a turning point in American politics: With the growing power of minorities, women and gays, it’s the end of the world as straight white males know it. WASHINGTON — Even more than the election that made Barack Obama the…