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  • Navigating Multiple Identities: Race, Gender, Culture, Nationality, and Roles

    Navigating Multiple Identities: Race, Gender, Culture, Nationality, and Roles Oxford University Press March 2012 288 pages Paperback ISBN13: 9780199732074; ISBN10: 0199732078 Edited by Ruthellen Josselson, Professor of Psychology Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California Michele Harway, Faculty Research Specialist Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California Although questionnaires routinely ask people to check boxes indicating if…

  • Obama, Blackness, and Postethnic America

    Obama, Blackness, and Postethnic America The Chronicle of Higher Education 2008-02-29 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California, Berkeley The Obama candidacy challenges our notions of identity politics In their support for Hillary Rodham Clinton over Barack Obama, prominent black leaders have made it clear that black skin color itself…

  • Race Remixed?

    The 2000 U.S. Census was the first in modern times allowing respondents to check off more than one box for the mandatory race question. In 2010, the number of people checking more than one box grew enormously.

  • Has ‘whiteness studies’ run its course at colleges?

    Has ‘whiteness studies’ run its course at colleges? Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-30 Alex P. Kellogg, Special to CNN Among university departments that study African-American history, Latin American or Chicano cultures and all varieties of ethnicities and nationalities, there’s a relatively obscure field of academic inquiry: whiteness…

  • For Obama, Estranged in a Strange Land, Aloha Had Its Limits

    For Obama, Estranged in a Strange Land, Aloha Had Its Limits The New York Times 2007-04-09 Lawrence Downes Reporters have been shuttling across the Pacific lately in search of the early chapters of Senator Barack Obama’s life story. Their guidebook is his memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” in which he describes his adolescence in Honolulu—where…

  • The Politics of Race

    The Politics of Race The New York Times 2008-11-04 The editorial writers Lawrence Downes and Brent Staples discuss how Senator Obama’s mixed-race identity has shaped his persona and his candidacy. View the video here (00:05:13).

  • Barack Obama: The Road from Moneygall

    Barack Obama: The Road from Moneygall Brandon Books June 2010 288 pages ISBN: 9780863224065 (hb); 9780863224133 (pb) Steve MacDonogh (1949-2010), Editorial Director A unique exploration of the president’s Irish ancestral origins. In his presidential election acceptance speech, Barack Obama evoked a story of great change in America, and an America made up of many strands.…

  • The End of Race? Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America

    The End of Race? Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America Yale University Press 2011-12-12 320 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4; 32 b/w illus. ISBN: 9780300175196 Donald R. Kinder, Philip E. Converse Collegiate Professor of Political Science; Professor of Psychology University of Michigan Allison Dale-Riddle, Doctoral Candidate of Political Science University of Michigan How…

  • For black Americans, multi-racialism is not new

    For black Americans, multi-racialism is not new The Daily Voice 2008-12-17 Sitafa Harden Clearly President-elect Barack Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, is multi-racial. The only question is what’s so new about that? In a recent article, AP race and ethnicity writer Jesse Washington explored the issue of…

  • Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

    Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America Princeton University Press March 2012 282 pages 6 x 9; 17 halftones. 14 line illus. 10 tables Cloth ISBN: 9780691152998 eBook ISBN: 9781400841943 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African…