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  • Challenging a Pan-African Identity: The Autobiographical Writings of Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips

    Challenging a Pan-African Identity: The Autobiographical Writings of Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips Journal of American Studies Volume 45, Issue 3 (August 2011) pages 483-502 DOI: 10.1017/S0021875810002410 Gregory D. Smithers, Visiting Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University In her 1986 book All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Maya Angelou reflected on the…

  • But I self-identify as African American. That’s how I am treated and that’s how I am viewed and I’m proud of it.

    “I’m an African American,” he said. “But I am somebody, like many African Americans, who has all kinds of stuff in him”… …“But I self-identify as African American. That’s how I am treated and that’s how I am viewed and I’m proud of it.” —Barack Obama Jason Horowitz, “Obama: I’m Not Interested in Talking About…

  • The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency

    The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency Texas A&M University Press 2014-01-15 266 pages 6 x 9 7 b&w photos. 4 figs. 4 tables. Bib. Index. Unjacketed Cloth ISBN: 978-1-62349-042-3 Paper ISBN: 978-1-62349-043-0 Edited by: Justin S. Vaughn, Assistant Professor of Political Science Boise State University Jennifer R. Mercieca, Associate Professor Department of…

  • Obama: I’m Not Interested in Talking About Race in the Abstract

    Obama: I’m Not Interested in Talking About Race in the Abstract The New York Observer New York, New York 2007-11-26 Jason Horowitz During a question-and-answer session in Berlin, New Hampshire last night, Barack Obama received a multi-part question about how he identified himself racially, race relations and his commitment to civil rights from an elderly…

  • There is nothing more bizarre to me than when people who identify as biracial/mixed race etc, demand that those of us who also have parents of differing races, identify ourselves just like they do.

    There is nothing more bizarre to me than when people who identify as biracial/mixed race etc, demand that those of us who also have parents of differing races, identify ourselves just like they do. Barack Obama self-identifies as a black man. Period. Finished. Let him be. It is those people (and not black/white people) who…

  • Obama’s Path Was Shaped by Mandela’s Story

    Obama’s Path Was Shaped by Mandela’s Story The New York Times 2013-12-05 Michael D. Shear WASHINGTON — Without Nelson Mandela, there might never have been a President Obama. That is the strong impression conveyed from Mr. Obama, whose political and personal bonds to Mr. Mandela, the former South African president, transcended their single face-to-face meeting,…

  • Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature

    Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature New York University Press August 2011 256 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814743386 Paper ISBN: 9780814743393 Gene Andrew Jarrett, Professor of English and African American Studies Boston University The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers,…

  • American Identity in the Age of Obama

    American Identity in the Age of Obama Routledge 2013-11-28 250 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-72201-8 Edited by: Amílcar Antonio Barreto, Associate Professor of Political Science Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Richard L. O’Bryant, Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts The election of Barack Obama as…

  • Many Rivers to Cross: From Black Power to the Black President

    Many Rivers to Cross: From Black Power to the Black President The Root 2013-11-26 Peniel E. Joseph, Professor of History Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts In the sixth and final installment of his PBS series, Henry Louis Gates Jr. leads us from the black power movement to the historic election of Barack Obama. Americans have notoriously…

  • The genes that build America

    The genes that build America The Guardian 2007-07-14 Paul Harris, US Correspondent From the discovery that presidential hopeful Barack Obama is descended from white slave owners to the realisation that the majority of black Americans have European ancestors, a boom in ‘recreational genetics’ is forcing America to redefine its roots. Paul Harris pieces together the…