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  • I’m Biracial—Not Black: Brooklyn Savvy Takes on Race

    I’m Biracial—Not Black: Brooklyn Savvy Takes on Race Brooklyn Savvy NYC Life, NYC-TV 2010-12-27 Toni Williams, Host and Co-Executive Producer Brooklyn Savvy takes on the complex topic of being “Biracial in America” with Juliette Fairley, actress and playwright of the “Mulatto Saga.” Join this riveting, candid discussion of Juliette’s journey as she discovers, and grapples…

  • Obama’s Presidential (Mixed) Race: Framing and Ideological Analysis of Blogs and News

    Obama’s Presidential (Mixed) Race: Framing and Ideological Analysis of Blogs and News University of New Mexico, Albuquerque July 2011 217 pages Iliana P. Rucker DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Communication The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States brought a heightened awareness…

  • Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview (Fourth Edition)

    Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview (Fourth Edition) Westview Press July 2011 400 pages Trade paperback ISBN: 9780813345543 Audrey Smedley, Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African American Studies Virginia Commonwealth University Brian D. Smedley, Vice President and Director Health Policy Institute Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies In a sweeping…

  • What race do you identify Obama as? Does President Obama’s race effect your opinion of him?

    What race do you identify Obama as? Does President Obama’s race effect your opinion of him? SOC 119 – Voices from the Classroom World in Conversation Project Pennsylvania State University 2011-09-08 The first of 138+ student comments… Personally President Obama’s race does not affect my opinion of him at all. When viewing Obama I consider…

  • He’s White, Unfortunately

    Obama’s ascent to the (still) White House is part and parcel of forty years of transition from the Jim Crow order to a new racial regime. Obama represents the sedimentation of a higher stage of the “new racism,” one described by Dylan E. Rodríguez as a “multiracial white supremacy.” In the new phase of racial…

  • He’s All and None—But Let’s Give It a Rest

    I say let him [Barack Obama] do his best to run the country, like any President, and the rest of us can do him a favor by not constantly debating how black he is or isn’t. Enough already. He’s the President, for Christ’s sake. Let him do his job. David A. Hollinger, “Chats: Is Obama…

  • Whoa, We Have a Black President

    Whoa, We Have a Black President Zócalo: Public Square 2011-09-08 Randall Kennedy Assesses Obama’s Triumphs—and Shortcomings—In Erasing the Color Line Randall Kennedy, Harvard professor of law and author of The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, had an assignment: to answer whether or not Obama has been erasing the color…

  • Are you white enough?

    Are you white enough? Salon.com 2008-11-10 Laura Miller, Senior Writer From Jim Crow laws to workplace discrimination, the history of race and the American courtroom is incendiary. Come January, Barack Obama will be sworn in as either the first black president of the United States or the 44th white one, or both, or neither, depending…

  • Up Front: Brent Staples

    Up Front: Brent Staples Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2011-09-02 The Editors Brent Staples, who reviews Randall Kennedy’s “Persist­ence of the Color Line” in this issue, is working on a history of mixed-race identity in the United States. “One of the things that interested me in the last campaign,” Staples wrote in an…

  • The Too Black, Too White Presidency

    The Too Black, Too White Presidency The New York Times 2011-09-02 Brent Staples Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. 322 pp. The next time you see Barack Obama gliding into a White House press conference, take note of that jazzy walk. It…