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  • The Joshua Generation

    The Joshua Generation The New Yorker 2008-11-17 David Remnick, Editor Race and the campaign of Barack Obama. Barack Obama could not run his campaign for the Presidency based on political accomplishment or on the heroic service of his youth. His record was too slight. His Democratic and Republican opponents were right: he ran largely on…

  • Giuliani: Obama Had a White Mother, So I’m Not a Racist

    Giuliani: Obama Had a White Mother, So I’m Not a Racist The New York Times 2015-02-19 Maggie Haberman, Political Reporter Nicholas Confessore, Political Reporter Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York on Thursday defended his assertion that President Obama did not love America, and said that his criticism of Mr. Obama’s upbringing should not…

  • Obama meets with 10 unsuspecting students for hourlong roundtable

    Obama meets with 10 unsuspecting students for hourlong roundtable The Stanford Daily Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 2015-02-13 Victor Xu, Desk Editor Vicki Niu ’18 (right) was one of 10 students who participated in an hourlong roundtable with President Barack Obama on Friday afternoon. (SAM GIRVIN/The Stanford Daily) Rio LaVigne ’15 signed up to meet…

  • My President

    My President Abernathy: for gentlemen of culture 2015-02-09 Brian Kamanzi Cape Town, South Africa Barack Hussein Obama. Let me start this off by an admission. The man is my hero. But, let me assure you that this has little to do with who he actually is. This isn’t about his foreign policy or about his…

  • First Black Elected to Head Harvard’s Law Review

    First Black Elected to Head Harvard’s Law Review The New York Times 1990-02-06 Fox Butterfield BOSTON, Feb. 5—  The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious in the country, elected the first black president in its 104-year history today. The job is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School. The new president…

  • U.S. to Collect Genetic Data to Hone Care

    U.S. to Collect Genetic Data to Hone Care The New York Times 2015-01-30 Robert Pear, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — Saying that “the possibilities are boundless,” President Obama on Friday announced a major biomedical research initiative, including plans to collect genetic data on one million Americans so scientists could develop drugs and treatments tailored to the…

  • Mutt, Monster or Melting-Pot? Mixed-Race Metaphor and Obama’s Ambivalent Hybridity

    ‘ObamaNation raped & killed 1,000 Christians’…

  • Mixed Kids Roundtable: The Politics of Multiracialism and Identity

    We were joined in this edition of iMiXWHATiLiKE! by a roundtable of panelists for a discussion of the politics of multiracialism and identity.

  • On race, Obama sticks to a game plan of seeking steady progress within the system

    On race, Obama sticks to a game plan of seeking steady progress within the system The Washington Post 2015-01-18 Steven Mufson, White House correspondent, financial staff writer During racially tense moments that have beset the nation recently, many Americans have longed for President Obama to display some of the passion and soaring rhetoric that made…

  • Hawaii As ‘Racial Paradise’? Bid For Obama Library Invokes A Complex Past

    Hawaii As ‘Racial Paradise’? Bid For Obama Library Invokes A Complex Past Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-01-15 Ellen Wu, Associate Professor of History Indiana University Sometime in March, President Obama is expected to announce his choice of the institution that will hold his presidential archive. Vying for the…