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  • Half-white is an insult

    Half-white is an insult The Guardian 2008-11-13 Michael Paulin The debate over how black Obama is obscures the racial reconciliation his election represents Barack Hussein Obama’s stunning victory against what was a thoroughly cynical Clinton campaign and a confused and morally bankrupt conservative Republican opposition is as historically significant as the fall of the Berlin…

  • Post-race? Nation, Inheritance and the Contradictory Performativity of Race in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ Speech

    Post-race? Nation, Inheritance and the Contradictory Performativity of Race in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect Union’ Speech thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory & culture Volume 10, Number 1 (2011) 18 pages Bridget Byrne, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences University of Manchester This article takes the speech that Barack Obama made in his campaign for…

  • Rhetoric, Identity and the Obama Racial Phenomenon: Exploring Obama’s Title as the “First Black President”

    Rhetoric, Identity and the Obama Racial Phenomenon: Exploring Obama’s Title as the “First Black President” Wichita State University May 2010 75 pages Krystal Cole A Thesis by Krystal Cole Bachelors of Communications, Southwestern College, 2008 Submitted to the Department of Communication and the faculty of the Graduate School of Wichita State University in partial fulfillment…

  • Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz

    Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz The New York Review of Books 2010-08-17 Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History Harvard University On a recent trip to Brazil, I struck up a conversation with Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, one of Brazil’s finest historians and anthropologists. The talk turned to the two subjects she has…

  • Politics: President Obama, of All People, Should Know That Some Rights Can’t be Left to the States

    Politics: President Obama, of All People, Should Know That Some Rights Can’t be Left to the States The New Gay 2011-07-18 Tony Phillips In 1961, when Barack Hussein Obama II was born in the brand new State of Hawaii, laws on the books in 22 of the other 49 United States forbade the marriage of…

  • The “inter” land: Mixing autobiography and sociology for a better understanding of twenty-first century mixed-race

    The “inter” land: Mixing autobiography and sociology for a better understanding of twenty-first century mixed-race Villanova University October 2009 105 pages Publication Number: AAT 1462397 ISBN: 9781109073102 Felicia Maria Camacho A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of The Department of English Villanova University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of…

  • More than a ‘tragic mulatto’

    More than a ‘tragic mulatto’ Runnymede Bulletin Spring 2011, Issue 365 pages 26 Zaki Nahaboo Department of Politics & International Studies The Open University, UK Daniel R. McNeil. Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs. London: Routledge, 2009, 186 pp. Hardback ISBN 978-0-415-87226-3, Paperback ISBN 978-0-415-89391-6, eBook ISBN 978-0-203-85736-6. Daniel…

  • Closing the Circle

    As [Matt] Wray puts it: “It speaks to the fastest-growing segment of Americans—those of mixed race—starting to rewrite the script. Obama, in his blackness, is free to explore his whiteness.” The circle won’t be closed, of course, until millions of white Americans embrace the Africa in their pasts. Forty million claim Irish roots. How many…

  • (Re)Claiming Rights?

    …Consider the irony of a man so long under fire for his origins, comes to Ireland to celebrate one strand of those origins. He is called black because in the United States, we are messed up about origins. Why not call him “Barack Obama, America’s 44th white president?” Or “America’s third Irish American president” (after…

  • What Is The Real Issue With Obama Choosing Black?

    What Is The Real Issue With Obama Choosing Black? The Atlanta Post 2010-05-04 Yvette Carnell During candidate Obama’s run for Presidency, he said “I self-identify as an African-American. That’s how I am treated and that’s how I am viewed. And I’m proud of it.” Case closed right?  One would think so, but now that President…