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  • Racial melting pot won’t end social disparities

    Racial melting pot won’t end social disparities San Francisco Chronicle 2012-02-12 Brenda Payton, Lecturer in Journalism San Francisco State University I looked at the room full of San Francisco State University students and saw the beginning of the end of race as we have defined it.   If that sounds a little over-the-top, here’s some…

  • Obama and the Elusive Idea of Race

    Obama and the Elusive Idea of Race The Root 2011-04-26 Mary C. Curtis Scientists increasingly conclude that ethnicity cannot be defined scientifically, but that hasn’t stopped the racists, the Birthers and the confused from casting their insecurities onto the president. It’s not surprising to get involved in a heated discussion about race when you’re strolling…

  • Not Another Remix: How Obama Became the First Hip-Hop President

    Not Another Remix: How Obama Became the First Hip-Hop President Journal of Popular Music Studies Volume 22, Issue 4, December 2010 pages 389–415 DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-1598.2010.01252.x Travis L. Gosa, Assistant Professor of Social Science at Cornell University Cornell University January 20, 2009 marked the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the first African-American president of the United…

  • Speaking in Tongues

    Speaking in Tongues The New York Review of Books Volume 56, Number 3 (2009-02-26) Zadie Smith The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1. Hello. This voice I speak with these days, this English voice with its rounded vowels and consonants in more or less…

  • Obama’s mixed ancestry generates some of the new uncertainty about blackness…

    Obama’s mixed ancestry generates some of the new uncertainty about blackness. The white part of his genetic inheritance is not socially hidden, as it often is for “light-skinned blacks” who descend from black women sexually exploited by white slaveholders and other white males. Rather, Obama’s white ancestry is right there in the open, visible in…

  • Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign

    Race, Religion Collide in 2012 Campaign The Associated Press 2012-05-05 Jesse Washington, National Writer, Race and Ethnicity Rachel Zoll, National Religion Writer How unthinkable it was, not so long ago, that a presidential election would pit a candidate fathered by an African against another condemned as un-Christian. And yet, here it is: Barack Obama vs.…

  • This is a Time for Hope and Change

    This is a Time for Hope and Change Indiana Law Journal Volume 87, Issue 1 (2012) Article 23 pages 431-444 Kevin D. Brown, Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law Indiana University Maurer School of Law I have agreed to comment on the paper delivered by Professors Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Mario Barnes at a conference titled…

  • Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism

    “Troubling the Family” argues that the emergence of multiracialism during the 1990s was determined by underlying and unacknowledged gender norms. Opening with a germinal moment for multiracialism—the seemingly massive and instantaneous popular appearance of Tiger Woods in 1997—Habiba Ibrahim examines how the shifting status of racial hero for both black and multiracial communities makes sense…

  • Decline In U.S. Whites, Rise Of Latinos Blurring Traditional Racial Lines

    Decline In U.S. Whites, Rise Of Latinos Blurring Traditional Racial Lines The Huffington Post 2013-03-17 Hope Yen The Associated Press Associated Press writers Elaine Ganley in Montfermeil, France, Jenny Barchfield in Rio de Janeiro and Michelle Rindels in Las Vegas contributed to this report. WASHINGTON — Welcome to the new off-white America. A historic decline…

  • Demographic Demagoguery: Gregory Rodriguez’s views on race and the census just don’t add up

    Demographic Demagoguery: Gregory Rodriguez’s views on race and the census just don’t add up MixedRaceStudies.org 2011-04-08 Steven F. Riley Gregory Rodriguez’s editorial titled “President Obama: Black and more so” or “President Obama: At odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride” in the April 4, 2011 edition of the Los Angeles Times reveals the destructive hubris…