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  • Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship

    Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship University of South Carolina Press June 2015 224 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-61117-531-8 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61117-532-5 Robert E. Terrill, Associate Professor Department of Communication & Culture Indiana University, Bloomington An examination of President Obama’s oratory as a reflection of the…

  • Barack Obama and the Third Wave: the syntaxes of whiteness and articulating difference in the post-identity era

    Barack Obama and the Third Wave: the syntaxes of whiteness and articulating difference in the post-identity era Politics, Groups, and Identities Volume 2, Issue 4, 2014 pages 573-588 DOI: 10.1080/21565503.2014.969739 Melanye T. Price, Assistant Professor Africana Studies and Political Science Departments Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Emerging critiques of Third Wave Feminism and…

  • Four-country newspaper framing of Barack Obama’s multiracial identity in the 2008 US presidential election

    Four-country newspaper framing of Barack Obama’s multiracial identity in the 2008 US presidential election Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies Volume 35, Issue 3, 2014 pages 23-38 DOI: 10.1080/02560054.2014.955867 Kioko Ireri, Assistant Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya Though Barack Obama was the first African American presidential nominee for a…

  • Politics, Opinion and Reality in Black and White: Conceptualizing Postracialism at the Beginning of the 21st Century

    Politics, Opinion and Reality in Black and White: Conceptualizing Postracialism at the Beginning of the 21st Century Revue de Recherche en Civilisation Américaine Number 3 (March 2012): Post-racial America? Lisa Veroni-Paccher, MCF, Civilisation américaine Université Bordeaux Montaigne With the election of the first black president, commentators and pundits said that Americans could now believe that…

  • “Beyond the Binary: Obama’s Hybridity and Post-Racialization.”

    “Beyond the Binary: Obama’s Hybridity and Post-Racialization.” Revue de Recherche en Civilisation Américaine Number 3 (March 2012): Post-racial America? Kirin Wachter-Grene, Acting Instructor of Literature New York University According to many in the American and international press, the 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama has heralded a possible era of “postracialism” in the United States.…

  • The Politics of Race and Class in the Age of Obama

    The Politics of Race and Class in the Age of Obama Revue de Recherche en Civilisation Américaine Number 3 (March 2012): Post-racial America? Myra Mendible, Professor of English and Department Chair for Language and Literature Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida This essay explores the revival and misappropriation of identity politics in the age…

  • In Conversation: Quentin Tarantino

    In Conversation: Quentin Tarantino Vulture 2015-08-23 Lane Brown, Culture Editor Midway through postproduction on his eighth movie, the Western THE HATEFUL EIGHT — about a band of outlaws trapped in a saloon during a blizzard — the director discusses the country’s legacy of white supremacy, Obama, and why he doesn’t worry about a Transformers future.…

  • The Wrongs of the Right: Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama

    In “Wrongs of the Right,” Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks set postracial claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at Obama, his administration, and African Americans.

  • The Race Draft Fails, Again

    The Race Draft Fails, Again Ebony 2015-08-26 Damon Young, Writer (left) Barack Obama, Mariah Carey and Shawn King Damon Young says a recent campaign questioning Shaun King’s ethnicity is the latest in a string of attempts to take good Blacks out the gene pool We should have seen it coming. All the signs were there.…

  • On Martha’s Vineyard, black elites ponder the past year

    On Martha’s Vineyard, black elites ponder the past year Politico 2015-08-22 Sara Wheaton, White House Reporter As Obama vacations on the island, an upper-class gathering grapples with a year of unrest. EDGARTOWN, Mass. – For America’s black elite, this year’s seasonal sojourn to Martha’s Vineyard turned into a soul-searching retreat. The shooting of a young,…