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  • Texting Obama: Poetics/Politics/Popular Culture

    Texting Obama: Poetics/Politics/Popular Culture Sponsored by English Research Institute, the Manchester Writing School at MMU and The Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Research 2010-09-07 through 2010-09-10 Texting Obama: Poetics/Politics/Popular Culture is an Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, mapping and exploring the specific historical, political and cultural climates in which Obama(’s) texts operate. Barack…

  • Black or Biracial? Who Gets to Decide?

    Black or Biracial? Who Gets to Decide? The Huffington Post 2009-03-04 Abby L. Ferber, Associate Professor, Director of the Matrix Center and Co-Director of Women’s and Ethnic Studies University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Is Obama Black? Biracial? And why do we care so much? A new book by George Yancey and Richard Lewis, Jr., Interracial…

  • AMST130 SC-Multiracial People and Relations in U.S. History

    AMST130 SC-Multiracial People and Relations in U.S. History Scripps College, Claremont, California 2013 Matthew Delmont, Assistant Professor of American Studies This class will explore the conditions and consequences for crossing racial boundaries in the U.S. We will take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring historical, literary, and ethnographic writings along with several feature and documentary film treatments…

  • President Obama checks the “Black” box; Evidently it’s official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.

    President Obama checks the “Black” box Evidently it’s official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president. Psychology Today 2010-04-04 Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D., Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Co-Founder Pathways Institute for Impulse Control, San Francisco This week, the New York Times reported that “It is official: Barack Obama is the nation’s first black president.”…

  • Obama and Race in America

    Obama and Race in America The Huffington Post 2010-08-06 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University In his first major comment on race and race relations in our nation since his “A More Perfect Union Speech” on March 18, 2008, President Barack Obama called for frank discussion about race last week. In both a speech…

  • Black and White, or Shades of Gray? Racial Labeling of Barack Obama Predicts Implicit Race Perception

    Black and White, or Shades of Gray? Racial Labeling of Barack Obama Predicts Implicit Race Perception Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 10, Issue 1 (December 2010) pages 207–222 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2010.01213.x Lori Wu Malahy University of Washington Mara Sedlins University of Washington Jason Plaks, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Toronto Yuichi Shoda,…

  • The more things change, the more they stay the same

    The more things change, the more they stay the same Thinking Twice: RACE The Stanford Review 2009-01-29 C. Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Stanford University Last week, we inaugurated our first African American president, and coincidentally our first mixed race president, and our…

  • Why Obama is Black Again

    Why Obama is Black Again Thinking Twice: RACE The Stanford Review 2009-01-29 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University Barack Obama’s inauguration was for so many an awe-inspiring, historic and transnational event: It was full of grand pageantry and a good-humored…

  • Obama’s Mixology

    For different reasons, this same identity question has also had some traction with people of color, many of whom worry that Obama will usher in what Danzy Senna calls the “mulatto millennium,” especially if it implies that, as some of Obama’s supporters chanted earlier this year, “race doesn’t matter.”…

  • Barack Obama and the Charm of the Stranger

    Barack Obama and the Charm of the Stranger The Zeleza Post 2009-01-25 Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Associate Professor of Africana Studies San Diego State University What is source of Barack Obama’s charm? Why was he able to win over whites, blacks and Latinos in a country that is famously partisan? Arguably, there are politicians who are…