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  • Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House

    Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House Paradigm Publishers February 2011 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-59451-833-1 EBook ISBN: 978-1-61205-000-3 Kenneth T. Walsh This book examines the intertwined relationships between the presidents and the African Americans who have been an integral part of the White House since the beginning…

  • The Obama Era: A New Age in American Politics

    The Obama Era: A New Age in American Politics The Huffington Post 2012-12-05 Brandon Hill Stanford University Barack Obama’s elections—both 2008 and 2012—have inaugurated a new political reality in America. He has rewritten history in two consecutive elections, and his groundbreaking victories will forever change the game of politics in our country. Before 2008 the…

  • No longer your father’s electorate

    No longer your father’s electorate The Los Angeles Times 2012-11-08 Paul West, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Even more than the election that made Barack Obama the first black president, the one that returned him to office sent an unmistakable signal that the hegemony of the straight white male in America is over. The long drive…

  • The Election of Barack Obama: How He Won

    The Election of Barack Obama: How He Won Palgrave Macmillan August 2010 178 pages DOI: 10.1057/9780230111790 ebook ISBN: 9780230111790 Paperback ISBN: 9780230103511 Hardback ISBN: 9780230314603 Baodong Liu, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Utah This book examines the historical election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president from the perspective of racial relations.…

  • Is There Colorism on the Campaign Trail?

    Is There Colorism on the Campaign Trail? The Root 2012-12-13 Keli Goff, Political Correspondent Experts weighed in on when skin tone matters in politics and society. (The Root) — The latest installment of CNN’s docuseries Black in America asked the question “Who Is Black in America?” and examined the issue of colorism: bias based not…

  • Pete Souza’s Portrait of a Presidency

    Pete Souza’s Portrait of a Presidency Time LightBox Time Magazine 2012-10-08 Phil Bicker, Senior Photo Editor Pete Souza/The White House The long view of history tends to be the judge of a presidency. As President Obama embarks on a second term in the Oval Office, it may still be too early to draw conclusions about…

  • 2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President

    2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President Time Magazine 2012-12-19 Michael Scherer Photograph by Nadav Kander Twenty-seven years after driving from New York City to Chicago in a $2,000 Honda Civic for a job that probably wouldn’t amount to much, Barack Obama, in better shape but with grayer hair, stood in the presidential…

  • Rather, Obama’s identity is informed by his social experience…

    That Barack Obama self-identifies as African American rather than ‘Mixed’ has probably little to do with a rejection of his mother’s heritage or a radical kind of separatist politics. Rather, Obama’s identity is informed by his social experience, and the reality of racism is evidenced not simply in his experiences in the 1970s or 1980s,…

  • Who are we? Census 2011 reports on ethnicity in the UK

    Who are we? Census 2011 reports on ethnicity in the UK Runnymede Trust: Intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain 2012-12-11 Dr. Omar Khan, Head of Policy Research Every ten years the Census provides us with multiple insights into the state of modern Britain. In today’s release of the 2011 Census, we find that the Black and…

  • Othering Obama: How Whiteness is Used to Undermine Authority

    Othering Obama: How Whiteness is Used to Undermine Authority Altre Modernità/Other Modernities ISSN 2035-7680 Number 3 (2010) pages 112-119 DOI: 10.6092/2035-7680/517 David S. Owen, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Director of Diversity Programs, College of Arts and Sciences University of Louisville In this paper, I argue that the sociocultural structuring property of whiteness has been utilized…