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  • Good Question: Is Obama The First Black President?

    Good Question: Is Obama The First Black President? WCCO-TV Good Question 2008-11-05 Jason Derush, Reporter You can’t turn on television or read a newspaper without seeing a reference to Sen. Barack Obama, the first black President. But wait a minute, said Naomi Banks, if Obama has a white mother, “My question is… why isn’t he…

  • Even discussing ‘angry black man’ stereotype provokes anger

    Even discussing ‘angry black man’ stereotype provokes anger CNN 2010-06-16 John Blake (CNN) — Here are some sound bites from the post-racial era: “The long legged Mac Daddy in the White House is angry this morning. Seems to me we should change the name to the Black House for the next few years. Your news…

  • Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign

    Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign BrownWalker Press 2010 229 pages ISBN-10: 1599425378 ISBN-13: 9781599425375 Edited by Myra Mendible, Professor of English and Department Chair for Language and Literature Florida Gulf Coast University Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign brings together a diverse group of scholars and activists to examine the…

  • Interracial marriage still rising in U.S.

    Interracial marriage still rising in U.S. Associated Press 2010-05-26 Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer About 8 percent of U.S. marriages are mixed-race WASHINGTON – Melting pot or racial divide? The growth of interracial marriages is slowing among U.S.-born Hispanics and Asians. Still, blacks are substantially more likely than before to marry whites. The number of…

  • Not-Black by Default

    Not-Black by Default The Nation Diary of a Mad Law Professor 2010-04-21 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University Most people who appear phenotypically “black” don’t play around when the government asks them to report their race. Last week, Melissa Harris-Lacewell wrote an insightful column, “Black by Choice,” about President Obama’s…

  • Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background

    Census trend shows mixed-race Americans are more likely to identify with their multiracial background Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-05-18 Brittany Wong, Bruin contributor When President Barack Obama got to Question No. 9 on the 2010 Census, he did what mixed-race respondents nationwide were asked to do: pare down and define his complex…

  • The President, the Professor, and the Wide Receiver

    The President, the Professor, and the Wide Receiver When the biracial U.S. President Barack Obama visits South Korea tomorrow, he will be visiting a country grappling with its prejudices about race. Foreign Policy 2009-11-17 James Card This week, U.S. President Barack Obama, the son of a black father and white mother, is making his landmark…

  • Census Nonsense: Why Barack Obama isn’t black.

    Census Nonsense: Why Barack Obama isn’t black. The New Republic 2010-04-07 John Judis, Senior Editor and Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace When asked about his race on the census form, Barack Obama, the child of a white Kansan and black African, did not take the option of checking both “white” and…

  • In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery

    In First Lady’s Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery The New York Times 2009-10-08 Rachel L. Swarns Jodi Kantor WASHINGTON — In 1850, the elderly master of a South Carolina estate took pen in hand and painstakingly divided up his possessions. Among the spinning wheels, scythes, tablecloths and cattle that he bequeathed to his far-flung…

  • Obama’s census mark reveals race views

    Obama’s census mark reveals race views The Washington Times 2010-04-30 Joseph Curl America’s first black president has deliberately shied away from spurring a national discussion on race, most recently by checking only “African-American” on his U.S. census form without offering a word of explanation about his choice. The studied silence from the bully pulpit held…