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  • Birthers’ shameful racist roots

    Birthers’ shameful racist roots The Boston Globe 2011-05-02 James Carroll It was not up to President Obama to label the birther movement as racist in his extraordinary address on the subject last week, but plenty of commentary has done it for him. There can be no doubt that the lurid contempt shown to the president…

  • Shady’s Back

    Shady’s Back New Matilda Surry Hills NSW, Australia 2011-05-02 Jennifer Mills As Obama is called to prove his place of birth, Indigenous Australians are being asked to account for their origins too. Not black enough, not white enough: Jennifer Mills on public anxiety about biracial identity The release of Obama’s birth certificate by the White…

  • Birtherism’s real anxiety

    Birtherism’s real anxiety The Carletonian Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 2011 Spring Issue 4 (2011-04-29) David Heifetz Can we put this issue to rest now? On Wednesday morning, President Obama surprised a lot of people by suddenly releasing his long-form birth certificate, which, of course, showed that he was born in Hawaii. In explaining why he…

  • Controversy: Race and Sexuality on the American Frontier (FRO 100.023)

    Controversy: Race and Sexuality on the American Frontier (FRO 100.023) Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Angelo Robinson, Associate Professor of English “Am I Black or White? Am I Straight or Gay? CONTROVERSY?”  Since its founding, and long before recording artist Prince penned these lyrics in the 1980s, America has been a space and a place demanding…

  • Transcending Blackness in the 21st Century, or How Can I Be Like Barack Obama?

    Transcending Blackness in the 21st Century, or How Can I Be Like Barack Obama? Global Studies: A Member of the International Instutute University of Wisconsin, Madison Multiracial Tales and Multicultural Discourses 494 Van Hise Hall 2011-04-18, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Ralina L. Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington As “postrace” is the buzzword…

  • President Underscores Similarities With Brazilians, but Ignores One

    President Underscores Similarities With Brazilians, but Ignores One The New York Times 2011-03-20 Alexei Barrionuevo Jackie Calmes RIO de JANEIRO — From a visit to this city’s most infamous slum to a national address amid the gilded elegance of a celebrated theater, President Obama on Sunday sought to underscore the shared histories and futures of…

  • American Identity in the Age of Obama

    American Identity in the Age of Obama Northeastern University Amilcar Cabral Center in the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute Boston, Massachusetts Friday, 2011-03-25, 08:30-15:30 EDT (Local Time) The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States has opened a new chapter in the country’s long and often tortured history of…

  • Containing Multitudes

    Containing Multitudes Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2011-02-21 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim “Communities had to be created, fought for, tended like gardens. They expanded or contracted with the dreams of men– and in the civil rights movement those dreams had seemed large. In the sit-ins, the marches, the jailhouse songs, I saw the African-American…

  • The President, the Census and the Multiracial “Community”

    The President, the Census and the Multiracial “Community” Open Salon 2011-02-20 Ulli K. Ryder, Ph.D. What is the connection between Obama, the 2010 U.S. Census and multiracials?  Not as much as some may think. While it is tempting to look to Obama as a mixed race icon and to see the Census as publicly acknowledging…

  • Racial Paradox and Eclipse: Obama as a Balm for What Ails Us

    Racial Paradox and Eclipse: Obama as a Balm for What Ails Us Denver University Law Review Volume 86, Special Issue (Obama Phenomena: A Special Issue on the Election of President Barack Obama (2009) pages 743-783 Camille A. Nelson, Dean and Professor of Law Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts I. Introduction The 2008 political season provided us…