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  • Ebola has exposed America’s fear, and Barack Obama’s vulnerability

    Ebola has exposed America’s fear, and Barack Obama’s vulnerability The Guardian 2014-10-19 Gary Younge The virus is a metaphor for all that conservatives loathe, and sees the president’s policies under renewed attack In a column ostensibly explaining why moderates struggle in the Republican party, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen last year wrote: “People with conventional…

  • Legacy of the President’s Mother

    Legacy of the President’s Mother Mālamalama, The Magazine of the University of Hawaiʻi System January 2009 (2009-01-14) Paula Bender Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Stanley Ann Dunham The candidacy and election of President Barack Obama drew international eyes to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where his parents met. But among some at the university, it is Obama’s…

  • Meditation on President Obama’s Portrait

    Meditation on President Obama’s Portrait Lens Blog: Photography, Video and Visual Journalism The New York Times 2014-07-25 Maurice Berger, Research Professor and Chief Curator Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dawoud Bey’s photograph of the man who would soon be president was taken on a Sunday afternoon in early…

  • Articulate While Black. Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.: H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman, Oxford University Press, New York, 2012, 224 pp., ISBN: 9780199812967, $ 99.00 (hardcover)

    Articulate While Black. Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.: H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman, Oxford University Press, New York, 2012, 224 pp., ISBN: 9780199812967, $ 99.00 (hardcover) Journal of Pragmatics Volume 71, September 2014 pages 148-150 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2014.08.010 Marta Degani, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures University of Verona, Verona,…

  • Faces of the Democratic Future

    Faces of the Democratic Future The American Prospect 2014-09-04 Gabriel Arana, Senior Editor Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux Elaine Teng, Assistant to the Editor The New Republic Young leaders on the future of their party Demographers and political prognosticators like to talk about the rising “Obama electorate.” Majority-minority, more liberal on social and financial issues alike than their…

  • Paint the White House black: Barack Obama and the meaning of race in America [Haltinner Review]

    Paint the White House black: Barack Obama and the meaning of race in America [Haltinner Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1938-1941 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.871314 Kristin Haltinner, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology University of Idaho Paint the White House black: Barack Obama and…

  • Calling for Calm in Ferguson, Obama Cites Need for Improved Race Relations

    Calling for Calm in Ferguson, Obama Cites Need for Improved Race Relations The New York Times 2014-08-18 Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House Reporter WASHINGTON — President Obama called for calm and healing in Ferguson, Mo., on Monday even as he acknowledged the deep racial divisions that continue to plague not only that St. Louis suburb…

  • Americans Fill Out President Obama’s Census Form: What is His Race?

    Americans Fill Out President Obama’s Census Form: What is His Race? Social Science Quarterly Published Online: 2014-07-22 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12105 Jack Citrin, Heller Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley Morris Levy, Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Southern California Robert P. Van Houweling, Associate Professor of Political Science University of California, Berkeley Objective…

  • Obama has 44 cousins in the Senate. Now can’t we all just get along?

    Obama has 44 cousins in the Senate. Now can’t we all just get along? The Guardian 204-08-07 A J Jacobs Forget the president’s Tea Party cousin or Washington animosity. My research shows that we’re all part of one big family. A dysfunctional one, but still – come on, cousins! It’s been a tough week for…

  • American Race and Charismatic License: Finding Martín de Porres in Obama

    American Race and Charismatic License: Finding Martín de Porres in Obama Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal Volume 97, Number 3, 2014 pages 376-384 DOI: 10.1353/sij.2014.0018 Chris Garces, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Problematizing the saintly reputation of seventeenth-century Dominican servant Martín de Porres, this article explores a little-known, late medieval Spanish form…