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  • Trump Drops False ‘Birther’ Theory, but Floats a New One: Clinton Started It

    Trump Drops False ‘Birther’ Theory, but Floats a New One: Clinton Started It The New York Times 2016-09-16 Maggie Haberman Alan Rapperport Donald J. Trump publicly retreated from his “birther” campaign on Friday, tersely acknowledging that President Obama was born in the United States and saying that he wanted to move on from the conspiracy…

  • Toronto Film Review: ‘Barry’

    Toronto Film Review: ‘Barry’ Variety 2016-09-10 Owen Gleiberman, Chief Film Critic Devon Terrell in Barry. Courtesy of TIFF Set in 1981, a canny and absorbing drama paints a highly convincing portrait of Barack Obama when he was a 20-year-old college student in New York, still piecing together who he was. In the movie world, there…

  • The Trouble with Post-Blackness

    The Trouble with Post-Blackness Columbia University Press February 2015 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780231169356 Hardcover ISBN: 9780231169349 E-book ISBN: 9780231538503 Edited by: Houston A. Baker, Distinguished University Professor Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee K. Merinda Simmons, Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Alabama An America in which the color of one’s skin no longer matters…

  • JUSTIN WEBB: The tragic irony is, that under Barack Obama’s policy of not being black, America has become MORE divided by race

    JUSTIN WEBB: The tragic irony is, that under Barack Obama’s policy of not being black, America has become MORE divided by race The Daily Mail 2016-07-19 Justin Webb Like many of the most persuasive public speakers, Barack Obama has always had a neat line in self-deprecation. Shortly before being elected President in 2008 he told…

  • Barack Obama and Immigrant Blackness: A Catalyst for Structural Change

    Barack Obama and Immigrant Blackness: A Catalyst for Structural Change The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations: Annual Review Volume 12 (2012) pages 33-42 Kirin Wachter-Grene, Acting Instructor of Literature New York University This essay builds upon an argument I make in my article “Beyond the Binary: Obama’s Hybridity and Post-Racialization” to…

  • Othering Obama: Racial Attitudes and Dubious Beliefs about the Nation’s First Black President

    Othering Obama: Racial Attitudes and Dubious Beliefs about the Nation’s First Black President Sociological Perspectives Volume 57, Number 4 (December 2014) pages 450-469 DOI: 10.1177/0731121414536140 Daniel Tope, Associate Professor of Sociology Florida State University Justin T. Pickett, Assistant Professor School of Criminal Justice State University of New York, Albany Ryon J. Cobb, National Institute on…

  • Glamour Exclusive: President Barack Obama Says, “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like”

    Glamour Exclusive: President Barack Obama Says, “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like” Glamour 2016-08-04 Barack Obama, President of the United States Washington, D.C. The Perk of a “45-Second Commute” The President has spent “a lot more time” watching Sasha and Malia (here, meeting Mac the Turkey in 2014) grow into women. Official White House…

  • Obama, America, and the Legacy of James Alan McPherson

    Obama, America, and the Legacy of James Alan McPherson Literary Hub 2016-08-01 Whitney Terrell Whitney Terrell Remembers His Friend and Mentor The title story of James Alan McPherson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection Elbow Room opens with an italicized passage: Narrator is unmanageable. Demonstrates a disregard for form bordering on the paranoid . . .…

  • Obama Returns to His Biography

    Obama Returns to His Biography The Atlantic 2016-07-27 Yoni Appelbaum, Senior Editor/Washington Bureau Chief Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters Twelve years after introducing himself to the American public as the son of an immigrant, the president recast himself as a bearer of Scotch-Irish values. Twelve years ago, Barack Obama introduced himself to America as just a…

  • President Obama and the Long March

    President Obama and the Long March The New York Times 2016-07-28 The Editorial Board President Obama’s speech before the Democratic convention in Philadelphia Wednesday night was, of course, an occasion to celebrate the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state and the first woman to receive the presidential nomination of a major political…