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  • President Barack Obama defeats Romney to win re-election

    President Barack Obama defeats Romney to win re-election BBC News 2012-11-07 President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. America’s first black president secured more than the 270 votes in the electoral college needed to win. In his victory speech before supporters in Chicago, Mr Obama said he…

  • “Tense and Tender Ties”: a review of Janny Scott’s A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother (2011)

    “Tense and Tender Ties”: a review of Janny Scott’s A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother (2011) Transition Number 108 (2012) pages 129-140 Kimberly DaCosta, Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Dean of Students New York University, Gallatin Psychologically conflicted, confused, traitorous, tragic, and deracinated: the public vocabulary used to describe multiracial people…

  • 2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

    2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University Student Center 2250 North Shefield Avenue Chicago, Illinois 2012-11-01 through 2012-11-04 “What is Critical Mixed Race Studies?,” the biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be held at DePaul University in Chicago on November 1-4, 2012. The CMRS conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines…

  • Obama struggles to balance African Americans’ hopes with country’s as a whole

    Obama struggles to balance African Americans’ hopes with country’s as a whole The Washington Post 2012-10-28 Peter Wallsten Barack Obama stood at the lectern, trying to figure out what to say — or at least how to say it. He started speaking, then stopped, then started again, each time searching for the right tone, the…

  • The Price of a Black President

    The Price of a Black President The New York Times 2012-10-27 Frederick C. Harris, Professor of Political Science;  Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies; Director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society Columbia University WHEN African-Americans go to the polls next week, they are likely to support Barack Obama at a…

  • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Whiteness: A Revolution of Identity Politics in America

    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Whiteness: A Revolution of Identity Politics in America Columbia Journal of Race and Law Volume 2, Issue 1 (2012) pages 149-166 Andrés Acebo An enduring motif in American political history reflects the nation’s slow progression towards inclusion of a once disenfranchised populace. In the annals of its jurisprudence, the…

  • The Choice

    The Choice The New Yorker 2012-10-22 The Editors The morning was cold and the sky was bright. Aretha Franklin wore a large and interesting hat. Yo-Yo Ma urged his frozen fingers to play the cello, and the Reverend Joseph E. Lowery, a civil-rights comrade of Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s, read a benediction that began with…

  • For President, a Complex Calculus of Race and Politics

    When President Obama greets African-Americans who broke barriers, he almost invariably uses the same line.

  • Racializing Obama: The Enigma of Post-Black Politics and Leadership

    Racializing Obama: The Enigma of Post-Black Politics and Leadership Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society Volume 11, Issue 1, 2009 pages 1-15 DOI: 10.1080/10999940902733202 Manning Marable (1950-2011), Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies Columbia University In the 1990s, a new race-neutral, “post-black” leadership of African Americans emerged…

  • Why Obama is Black: Language, Law and Structures of Power

    Why Obama is Black: Language, Law and Structures of Power Columbia Journal of Race and Law Volume 1, Issue 3 pages 468-481 SpearIt, Assistant Professor of Law Saint Louis University [W]ords are our tools, and, as a minimum we should use clean tools: we should know what we mean and what we do not, and…