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  • The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race

    The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race New York University Press 2016-07-26 224 pages Cloth ISBN: 9781479853717 Paper ISBN: 9781479819256 Melanye T. Price, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick Nearly a week after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing…

  • Obama Faces Growing Expectations on Race and Policing

    Obama Faces Growing Expectations on Race and Policing The New York Times 2016-07-21 Julie Hirschfeld Davis WASHINGTON — At the White House last week, DeRay Mckesson, a Black Lives Matter activist who was arrested only days before in Baton Rouge, La., for protesting police violence against African-Americans, had a lengthy list of demands for President…

  • Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope by Mark S. Ferrara (review) [Williamson]

    Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope by Mark S. Ferrara (review) [Williamson] Rhetoric & Public Affairs Vollume 18, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 748-750 Jason G. Williamson Department of Communication Studies University of Georgia Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope. By Mark S. Ferrara. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2013; pp. 204. $45.00…

  • Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope by Mark S. Ferrara (review) [Ellis]

    Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope by Mark S. Ferrara (review) [Ellis] Utopian Studies Volume 27, Number 2, 2016 pages 382-386 Cameron Ellis Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Mark S. Ferrara. Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2013. 204 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7864-6793-8 Mark S. Ferrara’s principle scholarly interests…

  • Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope

    Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Hope McFarland 2013 204 pages softcover (6 x 9) Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6793-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-4766-0339-1 Mark S. Ferrara, Assistant Professor of English State University of New York, Oneonta The historical and literary antecedents of the President’s campaign rhetoric can be traced to the utopian traditions of the Western world.…

  • In First for Sitting President, Obama Publishes a Scholarly Article

    In First for Sitting President, Obama Publishes a Scholarly Article Fortune 2016-07-11 Jeff John Roberts Call him scholar-in-chief An author named “Barack Obama, JD” published an article on Monday in a scholarly journal. No prizes for guessing the topic: It’s an assessment of the Affordable Care Act as well as policy recommendations for the next…

  • United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps

    United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps The Journal of the American Medical Association Published online 2016-07-11 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.9797 Barack Obama, JD President of the United States, Washington, DC Importance The Affordable Care Act is the most important health care legislation enacted in the United States since the creation of Medicare…

  • CNN pundit goes off on racist whites who think they ‘allowed’ Obama to be president

    CNN pundit goes off on racist whites who think they ‘allowed’ Obama to be president Raw Story 2016-07-10 David Edwards Former Congressional Black Caucus Executive Director Angela Rye took issue on Sunday with white Americans who think they “allowed” Barack Obama to become president. During a panel discussion about race in America, CNN host Fareed…

  • The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

    The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America The Aspen Institute 2016-07-02 As Michael Eric Dyson notes in the introduction to his 2016 book, “[President] Obama provoked great hope and fear about what a black presidency might mean to our democracy. White and black folk, and brown and beige ones, too…

  • Racism twists and distorts everything

    Racism twists and distorts everything The Washington Post 2016-07-08 Darryl Fears, National Enviromental Reporter For three straight mornings, I’ve eaten breakfast sprinkled with madness. Throughout this week that started with July 4, I’ve woken to horrible news that was tough to swallow. Like everyone else, I watched videos that captured the nation’s racial angst —…