Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • No, Bill Clinton, we’re not ‘all mixed race’ – and you of all people should know that The Independent London, United Kingdom 2016-02-15 Remi Joseph Salisbury If you’re claiming you’re ‘colour-blind’, you’re not being progressive. You’re part of the problem In a seemingly fear-fuelled attempt to halt the rapidly growing popularity of Bernie Sanders, Hillary…

  • Let Ohio Vote First The New York Times 2016-02-16 Emma Roller We, as voters and election-obsessed bystanders, made it past the first two contests in this eons-long presidential primary, but seven candidates weren’t so lucky. The winnowed-down field has now moved on to the warmer vote-seeking climes of Nevada and South Carolina. Before moving on…

  • Chirlane McCray and the Limits of First-Ladyship The New York Times Magazine 2016-02-09 Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times What two years in Gracie Mansion have meant for a woman who aspired to be the “voice for the forgotten voices.”…

  • Bill Clinton downplays Obama: ‘We’re all mixed-race people’ The New York Post 2016-02-14 Aaron Short Bill Clinton still wants to be known as America’s “first black president.” The former president downplayed President Obama’s historic presidency, telling a Memphis crowd Friday everyone has some African ancestry. “Unless your ancestors, every one of you, are 100 percent,…

  • “End the Autocracy of Color”: African Americans and Global Visions of Freedom Imperial & Global Forum (blog of the Centre for Imperial and Global History at the History Department, University of Exeter) 2016-02-15 Keisha N. Blain, Assistant Professor of History University of Iowa John Q. Adams Historically, black men and women in the United States…

  • Is Obama a black man? The Independent: You Buy the Truth, We Pay the Price Kololo, Kampala, Uganda 2016-02-08 Andrew M. Mwenda, Founder and Owner How he has accepted the categorisation imposed upon him by a racial system that subjugated black people US President Barak Obama calls himself a black man. Indeed, America and the…

  • Based upon trends in racial self-classification, one has to be skeptical about the emergence of “majority-minority” America.

  • I Heart Obama University Press of New England 2016-02-09 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2″ Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61168-536-7 Ebook IBSN: 978-1-61168-967-9 Erin Aubry Kaplan A personal and cultural exploration of Barack Obama as black president, black icon, and black folk hero In his nearly two terms as president, Barack Obama has solidified his status…

  • Race, Interracial Families, and Political Advertising in the Obama Era: Experimental Evidence Political Communication Published online: 2016-01-20 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2015.1106625 Ethan Porter Department of Political Science University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Thomas J. Wood, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio State University Across two studies of race and interracial families in political advertising, this article finds…

  • Jay Smooth: The Ill Doctrine, Underground Railroad & Disenfranchised cheese puffs The Katie Halper Show 2016-01-20 Katie Halper, Host On our first episode of the Live Katie Halper Show I front of an audience we talk to Jay Smooth, founder and host of The Underground Railroad and of the Ill Doctrine video series. His videos…