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  • Unrest Over Race Is Testing Obama’s Legacy

    Unrest Over Race Is Testing Obama’s Legacy The New York Times 2014-12-08 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — As crowds of people staged “die-ins” across the country last week to protest the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police officers, young African-American activists were…

  • Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House

    Obama Plans Meetings on Ferguson Unrest at the White House The New York Times 2014-11-30 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter WASHINGTON — President Obama is planning a day of meetings at the White House on Monday to respond to the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and racially tinged anger across the country after a grand…

  • Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid

    Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid The Atlantic 2014-11-26 Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent Violence works. Nonviolence does too. In a recent dispatch from Ferguson, Missouri, Jelani Cobb noted that President Obama’s responses to “unpunished racial injustices” constitute “a genre unto themselves.” Monday night, when Barack Obama stood before the nation to interpret…

  • Obama failed Ferguson. The prosecutor is pathetic. Between the split-screen, the protesters get it

    Obama failed Ferguson. The prosecutor is pathetic. Between the split-screen, the protesters get it The Guardian London, United Kingdom 2014-11-25 Steven W. Thrasher, Columnist for Guardian US Politicians have found themselves on the wrong side of the gap between the fantasy of what the law does and the reality that people live There we had…

  • Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America

    Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America Routledge 2013-10-04 240 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-81394-5 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-81393-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-06779-6 Edited by: Mark Ledwidge, Senior Lecturer of History and American Studies Canterbury Christ Church University Kevern Verney, Professor of American History Edge Hill University Inderjeet Parmar, Professor of Government University of Manchester The…

  • Episode Six: A More Perfect Union

    Episode Six: A More Perfect Union The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) Public Broadcasting Service Tuesdays, 2013-10-22 through 2013-11-26, 20:00-21:00 ET From Black Power to Black President By 1968, the Civil Rights movement had achieved stunning victories, in the courts and in the Congress. But would African Americans finally…

  • Blacks, Obama and the Election

    Blacks, Obama and the Election The New York Times 2014-11-02 Charles M. Blow, Visual Op-Ed columnist President Obama’s name won’t be on any ballots Tuesday, but he will most certainly be on them in spirit — a fact that many Republicans are trumpeting and some Democrats are hoping to downplay. The president is not particularly…

  • I have no doubt what colour I am

    I have no doubt what colour I am The Observer London, United Kingdom 2009-01-17 Matthew Ryder, Barrister (QC) London, United Kingdom Let’s get beyond the debate over whether ‘mixed-race’ is synonymous with ‘black’. It is The question of whether someone who is mixed-race is, in fact, “black” has been the subject of much discussion since…

  • Maryland’s Never Elected A Black Governor, But Neither Have 47 Other States

    Maryland’s Never Elected A Black Governor, But Neither Have 47 Other States WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore Maryland 2014-10-24 Christopher Connelly, Political Reporter Before President Barack Obama joined Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown on stage at a get out the vote rally in Prince George’s County Sunday, Dr. Grainger Browning of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church in Fort Washington…

  • Another layer of blackness: theorizing race, ethnicity, and identity in the U.S. black public sphere

    Another layer of blackness: theorizing race, ethnicity, and identity in the U.S. black public sphere University of Iowa 2013 277 pages Patrick B. Oray A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in American Studies in the Graduate College of The University of Iowa While many studies of…