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  • Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama

    Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama The Guardian 2017-01-09 Cornel West, Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York Our hope and change candidate fell short time and time again. Obama cheerleaders who refused to make him accountable bear some responsibility Eight years ago the world was on the…

  • Will Racism End When Old Bigots Die?

    Will Racism End When Old Bigots Die? Code Switch: Race And Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2017-01-14 Leah Donnella Shelly Fields is a 46-year-old white woman living in Richton Park, a racially diverse Chicago suburb. She says she’s raised her four daughters, who are biracial, to see people of all races as equal, just as…

  • Farewell to the chief

    Farewell to the chief The Times of London 2017-01-15 Trevor Phillips April 22, 2013: the president pauses for a moment of silence in honour of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings PETE SOUZA After eight years in the White House, Barack Obama relinquishes the top job this Friday. Trevor Phillips criticises his legacy on…

  • How Black America Saw Obama

    How Black America Saw Obama The New York Times 2017-01-14 Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. I stood in Grant Park on election night 2008, along with more than 200,000 other people, and watched as a man I’d known as a fellow member of a Chicago church, a man I’d worked…

  • No Racial Barrier Left to Break (Except All of Them)

    No Racial Barrier Left to Break (Except All of Them) The New York Times 2017-01-14 Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, HKS Suzanne Young Murray Professor Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University We can’t create a more just nation simply by dressing up institutions in more shades of brown. Now we must…

  • Jolted by Deaths, Obama Found His Voice on Race

    Jolted by Deaths, Obama Found His Voice on Race The New York Times 2017-01-15 Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, National Reporter Tensions across the country prompted the president to abandon his early reticence on race again and again. WASHINGTON — Only weeks after 70 million Americans chose a black man for president,…

  • In stark farewell, Obama warns of threat to U. S. democracy

    In stark farewell, Obama warns of threat to U. S. democracy The Washington Post 2017-01-10 Juliet Eilperin, White House Bureau Chief Greg Jaffe, Reporter CHICAGO — President Obama used his farewell speech here on Tuesday to outline the gathering threats to American democracy and press a more optimistic vision for a country that seems more…

  • The Obama Paradox

    The Obama Paradox Slate 2017-01-09 Jamelle Bouie, Chief Political Correspondent Our first black president has an unyielding faith in the goodness of America. It got him elected. And it will cost him his legacy. The myth of Barack Obama usually begins with his speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and for good reason—it was…

  • ‘The Beautiful Faces of my Black People’: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia’s 2005 census

    ‘The Beautiful Faces of my Black People’: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia’s 2005 census Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, 2013 – Issue 10: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America Pages 1544-1563 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.791398 Tianna S. Paschel, Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley The recent multicultural…

  • National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America [Review]

    National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America [Review] Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 3, Issue 1, (January 2017) pages 141-145 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216676789 Mark Q. Sawyer, Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, Los Angeles Mara Loveman, National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America. Oxford, UK: Oxford University…