Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Category: Barack Obama

  • ‘Obama’s My Dad’: Mixed Race Suspects, Political Anxiety and the New Imperialism

    ‘Obama’s My Dad’: Mixed Race Suspects, Political Anxiety and the New Imperialism thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory & culture Volume 10, Number 1 (2011) Rachel Gorman, Lecturer Women and Gender Studies Institute University of Toronto In this article I will argue that the ideology of white supremacy is currently being reproduced as an ideology…

  • The curious case of Barack Obama: A postracial black man in a racialized world

    The curious case of Barack Obama: A postracial black man in a racialized world University of Houston, Clear Lake July 2009 180 pages Publication Number: AAT 1471005 ISBN: 9781109355192 Joel G. Carter THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The University of Houston Clear Lake In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF…

  • To look on any one person as somebody that needs to identify in a particular way…

    I think that what people were angry about was that he [President Obama] was not willing to be a symbol for multiracial people. But that’s not his job, in my opinion. His job is to be President of the United States. And that includes all of us, mixed, not mixed or whatever.  And so, really,…

  • Obama’s Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America

    Barack Obama’s presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era. “Obama’s Race”—and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election—paints a dramatically different picture.

  • Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today

    Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Volume 140, Number 2, Spring 2011, Race, Inequality & Culture, Volume 2 pages 11-36 Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University In…

  • Race in America: Restructuring Inequality: Intergroup Race Relation

    Race in America: Restructuring Inequality: Intergroup Race Relation Center on Race & Social Problems School of Social Work The University of Pittsburgh 2010 29 pages Editors: Larry E. Davis, Dean and Donald M. Henderson Professor of Social Work and Director of the Center on Race and Social Problems University of Pittsburgh Ralph Bangs, Associate Director…

  • Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race

    Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race The New York Times 2011-08-11 Dwight Garner Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. 322 pp. August is not half over, and already it’s been a punishing month for Barack Obama: the debt…

  • Mixed Messages: Barack Obama and Post-Racial Politics

    Mixed Messages: Barack Obama and Post-Racial Politics Spectator (Journal of the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematics Arts) Volume 30, Number 2 (Fall 2010) pages 9-17 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University The election of President Barack Hussein Obama marks an important milestone in United States racial politics. Many cultural critics and opinion leaders…

  • The right to self-identify?

    I have the right to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify. I have the right to identify myself differently than how my parents identify me. I have the right to identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters. I have the right to identify myself differently in different situations… Fanshen Cox. “Mixed…

  • Debate: Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue

    Debate: Are the Americas ‘sick with racism’ or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Issue 6 (July 2009) Special Issue: Making Latino/a Identities in Contemporary America pages 1071-1082 DOI: 10.1080/01419870902883536 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology Duke University Christina A. Sue commented on…