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  • Obama Warms To Speaking Personally About Race

    Obama Warms To Speaking Personally About Race Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2013-08-13 Linda Wertheimer, Senior National Correspondent and Host Ari Schapiro, White House Correspondent On race, Barack Obama often says he is not president of black America, but of the United States of America. Though he has not avoided the subject during his…

  • Colleges Help Ithaca Thrive In a Region Of Struggles

    Colleges Help Ithaca Thrive In a Region Of Struggles The New York Times 2013-08-04 Jesse McKinley ITHACA, N.Y. — In many ways, this city is not so special. It has a nice lake, some attractive houses with lawns, and a couple of colleges. But many places in upstate New York have lakes and lawns and…

  • Blurring the “Color-Line”?: Reflections on Interracial and Multiracial America

    Blurring the “Color-Line”?: Reflections on Interracial and Multiracial America 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies Issue 6: Special Issue – Race and Ethnicity (Fall 2000) ISSN: 1753-5794 Yasuhiro Katagiri, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American History and Government, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan “[N]o matter how we articulate this [case] [and] no matter which…

  • ‘Koreans are not racist’

    ‘Koreans are not racist’ The Korea Times 2013-08-02 Jonathan Breen Koreans can be close-minded to issues of race and culture, but they know it and they want to learn, says the head of a foundation that helps multiethnic children here. Yang Chan-wook, chairman of the Movement for the Advancement of the Cultural Diversity of Koreans…

  • Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me: A Watershed Moment for the U.S.

    Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me: A Watershed Moment for the U.S. Racism Review 2013-07-21 Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor of Sociology Texas A & M University President Obama’s poignant comments on the white-racist discrimination that Black men regularly face were pathbreaking for this country. First, in the history of the U.S. never has…

  • Obama’s “Double Consciousness” On Race

    Obama’s “Double Consciousness” On Race The New Yorker 2013-07-26 Jonathan Alter, Author, Reporter, Columnist, TV Analyst, Lecturer More than a century ago, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote of the “double consciousness” of the black man: “One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings.” President Barack Obama’s extemporaneous…

  • Obama bares his ‘blackness’ in Trayvon speech

    Obama bares his ‘blackness’ in Trayvon speech The Buffalo News 2013-07-20 Sonya Ross The Associated Press In a move unparalleled among presidents, Barack Obama reflects on being black in America. WASHINGTON – Something in President Obama’s voice caught Gregory C. Ellison’s ear. It was fleeting, subtle, and easy to miss — unless you’re a black…

  • Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness

    Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness The American Prospect 2013-07-19 Jamelle Bouie, Staff Writer On Obama’s remarks this afternoon. When President Obama issued a pro forma statement following last week’s verdict in the Zimmerman trial, there was some disappointment—“Why didn’t he say more?” It only takes a small step back to see the answer;…

  • Obama on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American

    Obama on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American The Washington Post 2013-07-20 David Maraniss Trayvon Martin, the president said, could have been him 35 years ago. That would have been Barack Obama at age 17, then known as Barry and living in Honolulu. He had a bushy Afro.…

  • Obama, from Rev. Wright to Trayvon Martin

    Obama, from Rev. Wright to Trayvon Martin The Washington Post 2013-07-20 Dan Balz, Chief Correspondent President Obama’s comments on Friday about the killing of Trayvon Martin were remarkable in many respects, but not least because of the distance he has traveled since the equally notable speech he delivered in 2008 during the controversy about his…