Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Barack Obama
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Obama as Anti-American: Visual Folklore in Right-Wing Forwarded E-mails and Construction of Conservative Social Identity Journal of American Folklore Volume 125, Number 496, Spring 2012 pages 177-203 DOI: 10.1353/jaf.2012.0018 Margaret Duffy, Associate Professor of Journalism University of Missouri Janis Teruggi Page George Washington University Rachel Young Missouri School of Journalism This paper investigates the group-building…
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‘Mutts like Me’: Multiracial Students’ Perceptions of Barack Obama Qualitative Sociology Volume 35, Number 2 (2012) pages 183-200 DOI: 10.1007/s11133-012-9226-4 Michael P. Jeffries, Assistant Professor of American Studies Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Existent sociological studies of multiracialism in the United States focus on identity construction, the cultural and legislative battle over multiracial categorization, and the…
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‘Too black or not black enough’: Social identity complexity in the political rhetoric of Barack Obama European Journal of Social Psychology Volume 42, Issue 5, August 2012 pages 564–577 DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.1868 Martha Augoustinos, Professor of Psychology University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Stephanie De Garis School of Psychology University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia The election of…
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Taking a social psychological approach, this book identifies influencing factors and several underlying processes shaping racial identity. Unlike previous studies which examine racial identity as if it was a one-dimensional concept, this book examines two dimensions of identity—a public dimension (how they identify themselves to others) and an internalized dimension (how they see themselves internally)—noting…
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Defining Mixed Race on Television: an Analysis of Barack Obama and Saturday Night Live California State University, Sacramento Fall 2011 109 pages Amanda Joy Davis THESIS Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in COMMUNICATION STUDIES This study uses a semiotic approach to textual analysis to examine social…
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The Prophetic Voice and the Face of the Other in Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” Address, March 18, 2008 Rhetoric & Public Affairs Volume 12, Number 2, Summer 2009 pp. 167-194 DOI: 10.1353/rap.0.0101 David A. Frank, Professor of Rhetoric Robert D. Clark Honors College University of Oregon Barack Obama’s address of March 18, 2008,…
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The Race of a More Perfect Union: James Baldwin, Segregated Memory and the Presidential Race Theory & Event Volume 15, Issue 1 (March 2012) DOI: 10.1353/tae.2012.0010 P.J. Brendese, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Haverford College The 2008 U.S. presidential race dramatized the connection between America’s segregated memory and its segregated polity. This essay makes…
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The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign SUNY Press September 2010 300 pages Hardcover ISBN10: 1-4384-3659-9; ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3659-3 eBook SBN10: 1-4384-3661-0; ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3661-6 Edited by: Heather E. Harris, Associate Professor of Business Communication Stevenson University, Stevenson, Maryland Kimberly R. Moffitt, Assistant Professor of American Studies University of Maryland, Baltimore County Catherine R. Squires,…
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Based in part on our review of discrimination cases in which President Obama’s name has been invoked—in most cases, either to demean minority workers or with an otherwise discriminatory purpose—we conclude that having a biracial, black-white (or self-identified black) president has had a surprising effect on the enforcement of anti-discrimination law. Indeed, we contend that…
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The Obama Effect: Understanding Emerging Meanings of “Obama” in Anti-Discrimination Law Indiana Law Journal Volume 87: Issue 1 (Spring 2012) pages 328-348 Symposium: “Labor and Employment Under the Obama Administration: A Time for Hope and Change?” Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles and Marion Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa Mario L. Barnes, Professor of Law University…