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  • What Is The Real Issue With Obama Choosing Black?

    What Is The Real Issue With Obama Choosing Black? The Atlanta Post 2010-05-04 Yvette Carnell During candidate Obama’s run for Presidency, he said “I self-identify as an African-American. That’s how I am treated and that’s how I am viewed. And I’m proud of it.” Case closed right?  One would think so, but now that President…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Generation Mix? A Statement of Purpose

    Generation Mix? A Statement of Purpose Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2011-06-13 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim Call it a quarter-life crisis. A change in the winds, perhaps. Maybe it’s my sad stack of rejection letters from graduate schools. Whatever the case may be, of late, I’ve been having a bit of an intellectual, (even…

  • Bill Moyers interview with Patricial Willilams and Melissa Harris-Lacewell

    Bill Moyers interview with Patricial Willilams and Melissa Harris-Lacewell Bill Moyers Journal 2009-01-23 Bill Moyers, Host Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University Melissa Harris-Lacewell (Harris-Perry), Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies Princeton University Bill Moyers sits down with Columbia law professor and Nation columnist Patricia Williams and Princeton politics…

  • Prologue: the riddle of race

    Prologue: the riddle of race Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2 (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 4-14 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563141 Emily Bernard, Associate Professor of English and ALANA [African Americans, Latinos/as, Asian Americans and Native Americans] US Ethnic Studies University of Vermont James Vellacott, ‘President Obama shakes the hand of PC…

  • After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority

    After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority New York University Press January 2004 336 pages, 8 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780814735428; Paper ISBN: 9780814735435 Mike Hill, Associate Professor of English State University of New York, Albany As each new census bears out, the rise of multiracialism in the United States will inevitably result in a white minority.…

  • Mediating Racial Mixture

    Mediating Racial Mixture The Journal of Media Literacy Volume 55, Numbers 1 & 2 (Cultural Diversity) (2008) Carlos E. Cortés, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Riverside Which one of the following names does not fit in the set? Barack Obama. Mariah Carey. Halle Berry. Tiger Woods. Ann Curry. Soledad O’Brien. Benjamin Jealous. Carlos…

  • The campaign for racial purity and the erosion of paternalism in Virginia, 1922-1930: “nominally white, biologically mixed, and legally Negro”.

    The campaign for racial purity and the erosion of paternalism in Virginia, 1922-1930: “nominally white, biologically mixed, and legally Negro”. The Journal of Southern History Volume 68, Number 1 (February 2002) pages 65-106 J. Douglas Smith In September 1922 John Powell, a Richmond native and world-renowned pianist and composer, and Earnest Sevier Cox, a self-proclaimed…