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  • ‘Mixture is a Neoliberal Good’: Mixed-Race Metaphors and Post-Racial Masks

    The first section introduces three popular metaphors about mixed-race objects and ‘racial bridges’ that Fanon used to invoke the threat of bestial, immature and consumerist Others – metaphors that were not swept away by the winds of change in the 1960s, or the decline and fall of Black internationalist movements in the 1970s.

  • From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama African American Political Success, 1966-2008

    From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama African American Political Success, 1966-2008 University of Missouri Press 2012 272 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8262-1977-0 Dennis Nordin In 2008, American history was forever changed with the election of Barack Obama, the United States’ first African American president. However, Obama was far from the first African American…

  • Slavery, Race, and Reunion: The NY Times White Washes the Rape of Michelle Obama’s Ancestors (Again)

    Slavery, Race, and Reunion: The NY Times White Washes the Rape of Michelle Obama’s Ancestors (Again) We Are Respectable Negroes 2012-06-18 Chauncey DeVega Why would any person honor rapist’s blood? In an effort to write the Obamas, who are de facto American royalty, back into a larger post-racial narrative that ostensibly makes some white folks…

  • How Obama became black

    How Obama became black The Washington Post 2011-06-14 David Maraniss He was too dark in Indonesia. A hapa child — half and half — in Hawaii. Multicultural in Los Angeles. An “Invisible Man” in New York. And finally, Barack Obama was black on the South Side of Chicago. This journey of racial self-discovery and reinvention…

  • Barack Obama: The Story

    Barack Obama: The Story Simon & Schuster June 2012 672 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 1439160406; ISBN-13: 9781439160404 David Maraniss From one of our preeminent journalists and modern historians comes the epic story of Barack Obama and the world that created him. In Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss has written a deeply reported generational biography teeming…

  • How Racist Are We? Ask Google

    How Racist Are We? Ask Google The New York Times 2012-06-09 Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Barack Obama won 52.9 percent of the popular vote in 2008 and 365 electoral votes, 95 more than he needed. Many naturally concluded that prejudice was not a major factor against a black presidential candidate in modern America. My research, a comparison…

  • President Obama’s basketball love affair has roots in Hawaii high school team

    President Obama’s basketball love affair has roots in Hawaii high school team The Washington Post 2012-06-09 David Maraniss To say that President Obama loves basketball understates the role of the sport in his life. He has been devoted to the game for 40 years now, ever since the father he did not know and never…

  • Obama’s alliance with the left is an uneasy one

    Obama’s alliance with the left is an uneasy one The Washington Post 2012-06-09 Peter Wallsten President Obama bristles when he is the target of activist tactics he once used Barack Obama entered the stately Roosevelt Room and assumed his customary spot. Many of the nation’s leading immigration advocates had been waiting for him inside the…

  • Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters

    Feeling Is Believing: Why Obama’s Hair Matters Racialicious 2012-05-30 Danielle Fuentes Morgan It’s a question President Obama has undoubtedly been asked before. It’s almost a universal African American experience, except this time it was asked under different circumstances and for a different reason. “Can I touch your hair?” The photo of this moment, three-years-old at…

  • Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Comer Review]

    Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Comer Review] Black Diaspora Review Volume 3, Number 1 (2012) pages 52-53 Nandi Comer Indiana University, Bloomington Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. By Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 345 pp. “It’s proud to be able to say that… The…