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  • On Obama

    On Obama Routledge 2015-11-04 134 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780415525473 Hardback ISBN: 9780415525466 Paul C. Talyor, Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University On Obama examines some of the key philosophical questions that accompany the historic emergence of the 44th US president. The purpose of this book is to take seriously the…

  • Not Ready

    Not Ready North Bay Bohemian Santa Rosa, California 2015-12-31 Tom Gogola, News Editor 2015 was an ugly year in America When the question is asked near the beginning—”Is America ready for its first black president?”— it needs to be answered near the end. And as Barack Obama comes into the homestretch of his term in…

  • Obama’s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads

    Obama’s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads The Washington Post 2015-12-29 Max Ehrenfreund A new study shows that negative ads targeting President Obama in 2008 depicted him with very dark skin, and that these images would have appealed to some viewers’ racial biases. The finding reinforces charges that some Republican politicians…

  • Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns

    Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns Public Opinion Quarterly First published online: 2015-12-17 DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfv046 Solomon Messing, Director of Data Labs Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. Maria Jabon, Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn, Mountain View, California Ethan Plaut, Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University, Stanford, California Researchers manipulated the tone of President…

  • A More Perfect Union: Black Freedoms, White Houses

    A More Perfect Union: Black Freedoms, White Houses Public Culture Volume 28, Number 1, January 2016 pages 63-87 DOI: 10.1215/08992363-3325016 Jasmine Nichole Cobb, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois President Barack Obama signifies both the power of the institutional presidency and the legacy of black freedom struggles. His post in…

  • Making Blackness, Making Policy

    Making Blackness, Making Policy argues that blackness and black people are literally made rather than discovered. The social construction of blackness involves the naming of individuals as black, and the subsequent interaction between this naming and racial projects. The process of naming involves an intersubjective dialogue in which racial self-identification and ascription by others lead…

  • Multiracial in America: Who gets to be “white”?

    Jeremy Gordon on growing up multiracial, assimilation and “whiteness” in post-Obama America.

  • John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance

    John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance SUNY Press March 2013 Harcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4559-5 Electronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4561-8 Robert C. Smith, Professor of Political Science San Francisco State University Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency. Political…

  • Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives

    Theories of Race and Ethnicity: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives Cambridge University Press January 2015 Paperback ISBN: 9780521154260 Edited by: Karim Murji, Senior Lecturer in Sociology The Open University, United Kingdom John Solomos, Professor of Sociology University of Warwick, United Kingdom How have research agendas on race and ethnic relations changed over the past two decades…

  • Old Dixie Highway renamed President Barack Obama Highway in Florida city

    Old Dixie Highway renamed President Barack Obama Highway in Florida city The Washington Post 2015-12-19 Elahe Izadi, Reporter Workers install a new sign in Riviera Beach, Fla., on Thursday. (City of Riviera Beach) Old Dixie Highway is no more in Riviera Beach, Fla. Instead, motorists are driving on President Barack Obama Highway. Riviera Beach officials…