Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Training for assimilation: Cecil cook and the ‘half‐caste’ apprentice regulations Melbourne Studies in Education (Currently known as Critical Studies in Education) Volume 29, Issue 1 (1987) pages 128-141 DOI: 10.1080/17508488709556226 Tony Austin Darwin Institute of Technology One of the most significant consequences of the colonisation of Aboriginal Australia was a fast growing population of people…

  • I’m Biracial—Not Black: Brooklyn Savvy Takes on Race Brooklyn Savvy NYC Life, NYC-TV 2010-12-27 Toni Williams, Host and Co-Executive Producer Brooklyn Savvy takes on the complex topic of being “Biracial in America” with Juliette Fairley, actress and playwright of the “Mulatto Saga.” Join this riveting, candid discussion of Juliette’s journey as she discovers, and grapples…

  • Obama’s Presidential (Mixed) Race: Framing and Ideological Analysis of Blogs and News University of New Mexico, Albuquerque July 2011 217 pages Iliana P. Rucker DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Communication The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States brought a heightened awareness…

  • Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedded in ideas of blood, color, and race.

  • What race do you identify Obama as? Does President Obama’s race effect your opinion of him? SOC 119 – Voices from the Classroom World in Conversation Project Pennsylvania State University 2011-09-08 The first of 138+ student comments… Personally President Obama’s race does not affect my opinion of him at all. When viewing Obama I consider…

  • Dorothy Roberts – Fatal Invention The Tavis Smiley Show PRI: Public Radio International 2011-07-08 Tavis Smiley, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Professor and legal scholar Dorothy Roberts explores the effects of race-based science in…

  • The Biggest Lie About Race? That It’s Real The Root 2011-07-26 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Contributing Editor Dorothy Roberts says race is a social and political construct, and she won’t rest until we know it. There’s a reason we’ll never come to a consensus on the most accurate racial classifications for Barack Obama or Tiger Woods. There’s…

  • Fatal Invention: Race and Science The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC Monday, 2011-08-15 Brian Lehrer, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis professor and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research…

  • Whoa, We Have a Black President Zócalo: Public Square 2011-09-08 Randall Kennedy Assesses Obama’s Triumphs—and Shortcomings—In Erasing the Color Line Randall Kennedy, Harvard professor of law and author of The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, had an assignment: to answer whether or not Obama has been erasing the color…

  • The Concept of Post-Racial: How Its Easy Dismissal Obscures Important Questions Dædalus Volume 140, Issue 1 (Winter 2011 – Race in the Age of Obama, volume 1) pages 174–182 DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00069 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California, Berkeley Nearly all of today’s confident dismissals of the notion of a…