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  • “Redemption for Our Anguished Racial History”: Race and the National Narrative in Commemorative Journalism About Barack Obama

    “Redemption for Our Anguished Racial History”: Race and the National Narrative in Commemorative Journalism About Barack Obama Journal of Communication Inquiry Volume 35, Number 2 (April 2011) pages 115-133 DOI: 10.1177/0196859911404604 Siobahn Stiles Temple University Carolyn Kitch, Professor of Journalism Temple University, Philadelphia This article considers how race was discussed in commemorative journalism produced after…

  • Obama Deception?: Empire, ‘Postracism’ and Hegemonic White Supremacy in the Campaign and Election of Barack Obama

    Obama Deception?: Empire, ‘Postracism’ and Hegemonic White Supremacy in the Campaign and Election of Barack Obama Critical Race Inquiry Volume 1, Number 2 (May 2011) ISSN: 1925-3850 Tamari Kitossa, Assistant Professor of Sociology Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada The essay provides a socio-historical account of the role that hegemonic white supremacy played in the…

  • In visit to Ireland, O’Bama seeks to reverse U.S. notions of race

    In visit to Ireland, O’Bama seeks to reverse U.S. notions of race The Philadelphia Inquirer 2011-05-25 John Timpane, Inquirer Staff Writer President Obama’s one-day visit to Ireland was a masterly orchestration of three visuals – one imaginary, two very real. Imaginary visual: the apostrophe in O’Bama. “My name is Barack Obama,” he said in Dublin,…

  • Obama’s Mixed Heritage: A Mother’s Perspective

    It’s an interesting historical moment to be a white mother of a Black child, as another white mother’s Black child is running for president of the United States. Who’d have thought?

  • Bill Moyers interview with Patricial Willilams and Melissa Harris-Lacewell

    Bill Moyers interview with Patricial Willilams and Melissa Harris-Lacewell Bill Moyers Journal 2009-01-23 Bill Moyers, Host Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University Melissa Harris-Lacewell (Harris-Perry), Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies Princeton University Bill Moyers sits down with Columbia law professor and Nation columnist Patricia Williams and Princeton politics…

  • Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and Hawai’i

    Barack Obama as the post-racial candidate for a post-racial America: perspectives from Asian America and Hawai’i Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2  (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 133-153 DOI: 110.1080/0031322X.2011.563159 Jonathan Y. Okamura, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Hawai’i Okamura reviews the 2008 US presidential campaign and the election of Barack Obama…

  • Prologue: the riddle of race

    Prologue: the riddle of race Patterns of Prejudice Volume 45, Issue 1 & 2 (Special Issue: Obama and Race) (2011) Pages 4-14 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2011.563141 Emily Bernard, Associate Professor of English and ALANA [African Americans, Latinos/as, Asian Americans and Native Americans] US Ethnic Studies University of Vermont James Vellacott, ‘President Obama shakes the hand of PC…

  • Barack Obama’s Irish Roots

    Barack Obama’s Irish Roots The Daily Beast 2011-04-11 Tom Sykes President Obama set down in Dublin Monday [2011-05-23] as part of a six-day European trip that will include a stop in Moneygall, the tiny town where his great-great-great grandfather was born. In anticipation, the 350 people who live there have painted their homes and opened…

  • Op-Ed: President Obama and the Mixed Race Mix-up

    Op-Ed: President Obama and the Mixed Race Mix-up Digital Journal 2009-03-22 Hargrove Jones Today, a young woman in a California audience, stood up and told President Obama that she is mixed-race, and glad that the president is someone she can relate to. Does that mean she cannot relate to her father, or her mother?  …

  • Stories of Biracial America

    Stories of Biracial America The New York Times 2011-05-06 Polly Rosenwaike Barack Obama makes two appearances in Danzy Senna’s first story collection, “You Are Free”: in a photograph on an administrator’s desk at an exclusive preschool, and on the bumper sticker of a BMW. Seeing that BMW, the narrator of the story “Replacement Theory” observes,…