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  • Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature

    Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature European Journal of American Studies 1, 2011, Varia Document 6 DOI: 10.4000/ejas.9232 Daniel Stein Georg-August-Universität Göttingen This article provides a series of close readings of Barack Obama’s autobiography Dreams from My Father. It places the narrative within the history of African American literature and rhetoric…

  • The Significance of Mixed-Race: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama’s Race and the Effect of Obama’s Race on Public Support for his Presidency

    The Significance of Mixed-Race: Public Perceptions of Barack Obama’s Race and the Effect of Obama’s Race on Public Support for his Presidency Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series 2011-08-15 55 pages DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1910209 Samuel Sinyangwe Stanford University This research paper seeks to understand white, black, and mixed-race Americans’ perceptions of President Barack Obama’s racial…

  • The Emotional Tug of Obama

    In a story that quickly went viral, The Times’s Jackie Calmes wrote last week about the photograph, which was taken three years ago when the boy, then 5, visited the White House. It has hung there ever since, left on the wall even as other pictures were swapped out, as is the custom, for newer,…

  • Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs

    Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs In Media Res 2009-10-01 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion, African American Studies and American Studies Wesleyan University Insofar as they occupy the symbolic place of messiah in these zombie apocalypses, it interesting that from Ben in Night, to Peter in Dawn, and John in Day, to Robert Neville…

  • Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies

    Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies Anthropological Quarterly Volume 85, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 457-486 DOI: 10.1353/anq.2012.0021 Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion, African American Studies and American Studies Wesleyan University The first decade of the new millennium saw renewed interest in popular culture featuring zombies. This essay shows…

  • The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President

    The Hypervisible Man: Obama as the First Black, Mixed-Race, Asian American and now Gay President Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2012-05-24 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “I have always sensed that he [Obama] intuitively understands gays and our predicament—because it so mirrors his own. And he knows how the love and sacrifice of marriage can…

  • Obama’s election changed racial identity of black students

    Obama’s election changed racial identity of black students Chronicle Online Cornell University 2012-02-16 Karene Booker, Extension Support Specialist Department of Human Development Barack Obama’s historic election in 2008 stimulated individual and national reflection on race and changed African-American college students’ perceptions of being black, reports a new Cornell study published in Developmental Psychology (47:6). But…

  • Changes in racial identity among African American college students following the election of Barack Obama

    Changes in racial identity among African American college students following the election of Barack Obama Developmental Psychology Volume 47, Number 6 (November 2011) pages 1608-1618 DOI: 10.1037/a0025284 Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell, Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow University of Wisconsin, Madison Anthony L. Burrow, Assistant Professor of Human Development Cornell University Anthony D. Ong, Associate Professor of…

  • Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race

    Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race Princeton University Press 2010 178 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth ISBN: 9780691137308 eBook ISBN: 9781400834198 Thomas J. Sugrue, David Boies Professor of History and Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania Finalist, The 2010 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award,…

  • Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping

    Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping The New York Times 2012-05-25 Jodi Kantor The United States quietly passed a milestone this spring, mostly lost amid the clamor of the presidential race: for the first time, neither party’s candidate is a white Protestant. The contenders are both from outsider groups that were once persecuted,…