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Category: Barack Obama

  • Unmaking Race and Ethnicity: A Reader

    “(Un)Making Race and Ethnicity: A Reader,” edited by Michael O. Emerson, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Sergio Chávez, helps instructors and students connect with primary texts in ways that are informative and interesting, leading to engaging discussions and interactions.

  • Obama Tapped His Inner Krazy Kat When He Taught Us to Embrace Mutts

    Obama Tapped His Inner Krazy Kat When He Taught Us to Embrace Mutts The Daily Beast 2017-01-18 Michael Tisserand Michael Tisserand is the author of Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White. A self-described ‘mutt,’ Obama encouraged us to think about race in ways that erased the color line. But George Herriman, another…

  • ‘Our children can become president, too’: Obama’s presidency was a dream realized

    ‘Our children can become president, too’: Obama’s presidency was a dream realized The Grio 2017-01-19 Kevin Cokley, Professor of Educational Psychology; Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Large crowds watch the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States on a large screen in the neighborhood of…

  • Barack Obama’s original sin: America’s post-racial illusion

    Barack Obama’s original sin: America’s post-racial illusion The Guardian 2017-01-13 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor of African American Studies Princeton University Illustration by Joe Magee Barack Obama’s refusal to use his position as president to intervene on behalf of African Americans is a stain on his record many activists will never forget In the first hours…

  • Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama

    Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama The Guardian 2017-01-09 Cornel West, Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York Our hope and change candidate fell short time and time again. Obama cheerleaders who refused to make him accountable bear some responsibility Eight years ago the world was on the…

  • Farewell to the chief

    Farewell to the chief The Times of London 2017-01-15 Trevor Phillips April 22, 2013: the president pauses for a moment of silence in honour of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings PETE SOUZA After eight years in the White House, Barack Obama relinquishes the top job this Friday. Trevor Phillips criticises his legacy on…

  • How Black America Saw Obama

    How Black America Saw Obama The New York Times 2017-01-14 Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. I stood in Grant Park on election night 2008, along with more than 200,000 other people, and watched as a man I’d known as a fellow member of a Chicago church, a man I’d worked…

  • No Racial Barrier Left to Break (Except All of Them)

    No Racial Barrier Left to Break (Except All of Them) The New York Times 2017-01-14 Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, HKS Suzanne Young Murray Professor Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University We can’t create a more just nation simply by dressing up institutions in more shades of brown. Now we must…

  • Jolted by Deaths, Obama Found His Voice on Race

    Jolted by Deaths, Obama Found His Voice on Race The New York Times 2017-01-15 Michael D. Shear, White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, National Reporter Tensions across the country prompted the president to abandon his early reticence on race again and again. WASHINGTON — Only weeks after 70 million Americans chose a black man for president,…

  • In stark farewell, Obama warns of threat to U. S. democracy

    In stark farewell, Obama warns of threat to U. S. democracy The Washington Post 2017-01-10 Juliet Eilperin, White House Bureau Chief Greg Jaffe, Reporter CHICAGO — President Obama used his farewell speech here on Tuesday to outline the gathering threats to American democracy and press a more optimistic vision for a country that seems more…