Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Barack Obama
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President Obama: Black and more so Los Angeles Times 2011-04-04 Gregory Rodriguez By checking ‘black’ as his race on the census form, President Obama is at odds with clear demographic trends toward multiracial pride. The number of Americans identifying as both white and black jumped 134% in 10 years. It could have been a historic…
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“If I’m lucky enough to have children, I won’t tell them that Barack Obama was America’s first black president.”
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As the son of a black Kenyan and a white American, President Obama is biracial. As a symbol of our times, he’s also called post-racial. On his census form, he classifies himself as black. Whatever he is, the categories obsess many Americans. So in advance of Randall Kennedy’s visit to Zócalo, we put the question…
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Asked to Declare His Race, Obama Checks ‘Black’ The New York Times 2010-04-02 Sam Roberts Peter Baker It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president. A White House spokesman confirmed that Mr. Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, checked African-American on the 2010…
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Barack Obama and the Contest for Identity through Self-Representation: HIST-UA 413 New York University Spring 2013 Jeffrey Sammons, Professor of History This course will explore the life and career path of the nation’s first “black” president through a focus on his two autobiographies, which will be studied for their content, style, and grounding in the…
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The Myth of Post-Racialism: Hegemonic and Counterhegemonic Stories About Race and Racism in the United States Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Volume 7, Issue 1 (2011) (Special Issue: Post-Racial States) pages 2-25 Babacar M’Baye, Associate Professor of Pan-African Literature and Culture Kent State University In the United States,…
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Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority [Andrews Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 5 (May 2013) pages 918-919 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.758864 Matthew T. M. Andrews Department of Sociology University of Michigan Andrew J. Jolivétte (ed), Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority, Bristol: Policy…
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Crossed Paths: Chicago’s Jacksons and Obamas The New York Times 2013-02-24 Jodi Kantor and Monica Davey When Barack and Michelle Obama were married in Chicago two decades ago, Santita Jackson, a daughter of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, sang at their wedding. When Mr. Obama ran for his first national office, he made sure he was…
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Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama City Lights Books 2009-01-15 120 pages Paperback ISBN-10 0872865002; ISBN-13 9780872865006 Tim Wise Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obama’s emergence as a…
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The election of Barack Obama has had surprisingly little impact on a nation fixated on race