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  • Rare Visit Underscores Tangles in Obama’s Ties to Africa

    Rare Visit Underscores Tangles in Obama’s Ties to Africa The New York Times 2013-06-26 Michael D. Shear, Nicholas Kulish and Lydia Polgreen DAKAR, Senegal — As a freshman senator from Illinois, Barack Obama told a packed auditorium in Kenya’s capital, “I want you all to know that as your ally, your friend and your brother,…

  • Mixed-Race People Fastest Growing Group, Census Data Shows

    Mixed-Race People Fastest Growing Group, Census Data Shows KPIX 5 (CBS) San Francisco, California 2013-06-14 Elizabeth Cook, Co-Anchor Ryan Takeo, Reporter The face of the nation is changing rapidly, as Census data shows mixed-race people are the fastest-growing ethnic group. Ryan Takeo reports. Note from Steven F. Riley: Features San Francisco State University Associate Professor…

  • Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns

    Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns Temple University Press January 2011 272 pages 6 x 9 38 tables, 23 halftones paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-276-9 cloth: ISBN: 978-1-43990-275-2 e-Book ISBN: 978-1-43990-277-6 Charlton D. McIlwain, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication New York University Stephen M. Caliendo, Professor of Political Science North Central…

  • Winning the Race

    Winning the Race NYU Alumni Magazine Fall 2012 Andrea Crawford As the first African-American president runs for reelection, researchers examine the subliminal influence of political ads  In 1990, longtime North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms was trailing challenger Harvey Gantt, an African-American who supported affirmative action, when the Helms campaign produced the infamous “hands” commercial. As…

  • There are some things, as black men, we can only do for ourselves.

    But along with collective responsibilities, we have individual responsibilities. There are some things, as black men, we can only do for ourselves. There are some things, as Morehouse Men, that you are obliged to do for those still left behind. As Morehouse Men, you now wield something even more powerful than the diploma you’re about…

  • Bullying Pulpit: Racism, Barack Obama and the Selective Call for Personal Responsibility

    Bullying Pulpit: Racism, Barack Obama and the Selective Call for Personal Responsibility Tim Wise, Antiracist Essayist, Author and Educator 2013-05-19 Tim Wise Sometimes, white privilege isn’t about stuff. It’s not always about better opportunities, or more money, or even greater access to those things than people of color. Sometimes, white privilege is as simple as…

  • Obama Urges Morehouse Graduates to ‘Keep Setting an Example’

    Obama Urges Morehouse Graduates to ‘Keep Setting an Example’ The New York Times 2013-05-19 Mark Landler ATLANTA — President Obama came to Morehouse College, the alma mater of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on Sunday to tell graduates, 50 years after Dr. King’s landmark “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, that “laws…

  • What Obama must say to African-American grads

    What Obama must say to African-American grads CNN Opinion Cable News Network 2013-05-18 Paul Butler, Professor of Law Georgetown University —”My brothers.” That is how President Obama should begin one of the most significant speeches of his presidency: the commencement address at Morehouse College this Sunday. Addressing the historically black all male institution gives Obama…

  • The Political Psychology of Personal Narrative: The Case of Barack Obama

    The Political Psychology of Personal Narrative: The Case of Barack Obama Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 10, Issue 1, December 2010 pages 182–206 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2010.01207.x Phillip L. Hammack, Associate Professor of Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz Guided by theories of narrative identity, racial identity development, and Freire’s (1970) notion of conscientização,…

  • Cornel West: ‘They say I’m un-American’

    Cornel West: ‘They say I’m un-American’ The Guardian 2013-05-12 Hugh Muir, Diary Editor The American academic and firebrand campaigner talks about Britain’s deep trouble, fighting white supremacy and where Obama is going wrong Cornel West, the firebrand of American academia for almost 30 years, is causing his hosts some problems. They are on a schedule…