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  • Four years later, Barack Obama still a mystery in some ways

    Four years later, Barack Obama still a mystery in some ways The Dallas Morning News 2012-09-01 From staff and wire reports File: The welcome in Austin in 2007 was warm and Texan for presidential candidate Barack Obama. Still somewhat unknown Even after four years as president, Barack Hussein Obama remains unknown in some ways. He…

  • Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities

    Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities The New York Times 2012-08-30 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation’s public schools…

  • Barack Obama as the Great Man: Communicative Constructions of Racial Transcendence in White-Male Elite Discourses

    Barack Obama as the Great Man: Communicative Constructions of Racial Transcendence in White-Male Elite Discourses Communication Monographs Volume 78, Issue 4 (2011) pages 535-556 DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2011.618140 Christopher B. Brown, Assistant Professor of Communications Minnesota State University, Mankato This study examined responses on the potential impact of Barack Obama’s presidency from 16 semi-structured interviews with White…

  • Kelly Holmes is not fully British, says BNP MEP Andrew Brons

    Kelly Holmes is not fully British, says BNP MEP Andrew Brons The Telegraph 2009-06-13 Patrick Sawer Andrew Brons, the BNP’s first MEP, sparked outrage on Saturday after he said double Olympic gold medal winner Dame Kelly Holmes cannot be regarded as fully British. Mr Brons, who became the first member of the British National Party…

  • A Response to Ben Pitcher’s “Obama and the Politics of Blackness: Antiracism in the ‘post-black’ Conjuncture” [Rickey Hill]

    A Response to Ben Pitcher’s “Obama and the Politics of Blackness: Antiracism in the ‘post-black’ Conjuncture” [Rickey Hill] Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 12, Issue 4 (2010) (Post-Racial Politics and Its Discontents) pages pages 347-350 DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2010.526058 Rickey Hill, Professor of Social Science Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena,…

  • Fear of a Black President

    Fear of a Black President The Atlantic September 2012 Ta-Nehisi Coates As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to be “twice as good” and “half as black,” Obama…

  • Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama’s Post-Racial America

    Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama’s Post-Racial America Indiana University Press 2012-08-14 176 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00628-8 David H. Ikard, Associate Professor of English Florida State University Martell Lee Teasley, Professor of Social Work University of Texas, San Antonio In a speech from which Nation of Cowards derives its title,…

  • Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

    Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society Indiana University Press 2012-08-16 336 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00629-5 john a. powell, Professor of Law; Director Haas Diversity Research Center University of California, Berkeley Foreword by: David R. Roediger, Kendrick Babcock Professor of History and African American…

  • Obama and the black wave: Deconstructing myths, building strategies

    Obama and the black wave: Deconstructing myths, building strategies Pambazuka News: Pan-African Voices for Freedom and Justice 2009-02-19 (Issue 420) Raquel Luciana de Souza Having closely followed Barack Obama’s electoral success, Raquel Luciana de Souza considers the prospects for a presidential candidate of African descent within the South American giant of Brazil. Scrutinising the historical…

  • Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil 1888–1988

    For much of the twentieth century Brazil enjoyed an international reputation as a “racial democracy,” but that image has been largely undermined in recent decades by research suggesting the existence of widespread racial inequality.