Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • Obama tweets, and a million follow: ‘It’s Barack. Really!’ Reuters 2015-05-18 Roberta Rampton, White House Correspondent President Barack Obama sent his first tweet from his very own account on Twitter on Monday, quickly amassing a million followers in five hours, the latest of many White House efforts to amplify his message with social media. “Hello,…

  • What is Systemic Racism? Race Forward 2015-05-13 Rinku Sen President of Race Forward & Publisher of Colorlines introduces the “What Is Systemic Racism?” video series featuring our very own Jay Smooth. Watch the entire video series here.

  • New Bill Would Let New Yorkers Identify As Multiracial On Official City Forms The Huffington Post 2015-05-12 Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias), New York Reporter New York City has the largest population in the United States of people who identify as multiracial. Even its mayor, Bill de Blasio, and its first lady, Chirlane McCray, have two multiracial…

  • In Twilight of Term, Obama Finds More Urgent Voice on Race Bloomberg News 2015-05-11 Mike Dorning, White House Correspondent Angela Greiling Keane, White House Correspondent Polls show racial polarization in the U.S. is at the highest in decades. With his time in office waning, President Obama is speaking out on race and poverty in increasingly…

  • Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life Ashgate September 2014 148 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4094-4498-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4094-4499-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-0107-6 Jonathan Xavier Inda, Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political…

  • “The First Black President” is a critical and passionate reflection on the political and historical implications of an Obama administration concerning the issue of race in America.

  • Negotiating Mixed Ethnicity/Heritage Relationships Seminar Coventry University Centre for Communities & Social Justice Room 152, Jaguar Building Coventry, United Kingdom Wednesday, 2015-06-24, 09:45-15:15 BST (Local Time) Historically, debates about ‘mixed race’ families have centred on Black/White relations concerning issues of identity, belonging and racism affecting the partner and their children. Though these issues have not…

  • In Ferguson, Obama missed his chance to transcend race The Orlando Sentinal Orlando, Florida 2015-04-29 Charles Michael Byrd, Guest Columnist Pundits habitually wonder what happened to the post-racial America they believed Barack Obama’s election would herald. The president, however, has never indicated his willingness to lead the country out of the race-consciousness wilderness. Many thought…

  • President Obama Condemns Both the Baltimore Riots and the Nation’s ‘Slow-Rolling Crisis’ The New York Times 2015-04-28 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Correspondent Matt Apuzzo WASHINGTON — President Obama responded with passion and frustration on Tuesday to the violence that has rocked Baltimore and other cities after the deaths of young black men in confrontations…

  • Will Police Killings of Blacks be the Defining Crisis of the Obama Presidency? NewBlackMan (in Exile) 2015-04-24 Mark Anthony Neal, Host and Professor of African & African American Studies Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Duke University University Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of the classic Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality…