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  • Why Barack Obama Is Black: A Cognitive Account of Hypodescent

    Why Barack Obama Is Black: A Cognitive Account of Hypodescent Psychological Science Volume 22, Number 1 (January 2011) pages 29-33 DOI: 10.1177/0956797610390383 Jamin Halberstadt, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Otago Steven J. Sherman, Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University, Bloomington Jeffrey W. Sherman, Professor of Psychology University of California, Davis We…

  • Racial Identity’s Gray Area

    Racial Identity’s Gray Area The Wall Street Journal 2008-06-12 June Kronholz The Definition of Whiteness Continues to Shift When Barack Obama, whose mother was white, identifies himself as black, and when Bill Richardson, whose father was white, identifies himself as Hispanic, who is white? The U.S. Census Bureau says the country will be majority-minority in…

  • Rhetoric and Silence in Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father”

    Rhetoric and Silence in Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father” Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice 2009 46 pages ISSN: 1097-3087 Barbara Clare Foley, Professor of English Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey When Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance first appeared in 1995, it was…

  • With Shades of Gray

    With Shades of Gray Emory Magazine Emory University Spring 2009: Coda: A Changing Country Reflections on the Inauguration of President Barack Obama Taharee Jackson, ’10 PhD The last thing I could afford to do was attend the presidential inauguration at the National Mall, but I simply couldn’t miss it. I had to go and represent…

  • Passing for Black? Biracial Americans Are Increasingly ‘Passing for Black’

    Passing for Black?  Biracial Americans Are Increasingly ‘Passing for Black’ The Root 2010-12-14 Thomas Chatterton Williams A new study posits that black-white biracial adults are increasingly choosing, like President Obama, to emphasize their blackness. But in this country, “black” has always been a mongrel affair. It created a minor media frenzy last spring when President Barack…

  • ‘One-drop rule’ persists: Biracials viewed as members of their lower-status parent group

    ‘One-drop rule’ persists: Biracials viewed as members of their lower-status parent group Harvard Gazette Harvard Science: Science and Engineering at Harvard University 2010-12-09 Steve Bradt, Harvard Staff Writer Arnold K. Ho (right), a Ph.D. student in psychology at Harvard, and James Sidanius, a professor of psychology and of African and African-American studies at Harvard, researched…

  • Obamafiction for Children: Imagining the Forty-Fourth U.S. President

    Obamafiction for Children: Imagining the Forty-Fourth U.S. President Children’s Literature Association Quarterly Volume 35, Number 4 (Winter 2010) E-ISSN: 1553-1201 Print ISSN: 0885-0429 pages 334-356 Philip Nel, Professor of English Kansas State University In a column published five days after the 2008 election, journalist Jason Whitlock said of the president-elect’s life: “His is a tale…

  • New research explains why we see Barack Obama as “black” rather than “white”

    New research explains why we see Barack Obama as “black” rather than “white” News of Otago University of Otago, New Zealand 2010-11-25 Why do people tend to see biracial individuals such as Barack Obama as belonging to the minority group in their parentage rather than the majority one? According to new studies led by a…

  • Through Mixed Eyes: The Biracial Experience and The Current State of Race in America

    Through Mixed Eyes: The Biracial Experience and The Current State of Race in America Williams College 2009-05-22 163 pages Riki McDermott Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment Of the requirement for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honors In Sociology President Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009.…

  • Race remains hot topic despite Obama presidency

    Race remains hot topic despite Obama presidency USA Today 2010-10-17 Shannon Mullen, Asbury Press The election of the first black president in U.S. history was supposed to usher in a post-racial era in America. But a series of controversies since then, from the White House “Beer Summit” to the conflicts between the tea party and…