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  • The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama

    The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama The American Sociological Association Mini-Symposium San Francisco, California 2009-08-08 through 2009-08-09 The historic campaign and election of Barack Obama constitutes a compelling and timely context for examining the program theme. In response, the 2009 ASA Program Committee and ASA President Patricia Hill Collins have organized a mini-symposium, a…

  • A Premonition of Obama: La Raza Cosmica in America

    A Premonition of Obama: La Raza Cosmica in America New Perspectives Quarterly (NPQ) Volume 26 Issue 4 Pages 100 – 110 Published Online: 2009-10-26 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5842.2009.01119.x Ryszard Kapuscinski Ryszard Kapuscinski, who died in 2007, was one of the 20th century’s greatest literary journalists. He personally witnessed the dramatic post-World War II upheavals of decolonization and…

  • Race mixing: Jones’ research has ties to political, sports figures

    Race mixing: Jones’ research has ties to political, sports figures Richmond Now The Faculty, Staff and Student Newspaper University of Richmond By Joan Tupponce April 2007 No one is more intrigued with news about presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama or professional golfer Tiger Woods than Dr. Suzanne W. Jones, professor of English and women, gender…

  • Self-Perceived Minority Prototypicality and Identification in Mixed Race Individuals: Implications for Self-Esteem and Affirmative Action

    Self-Perceived Minority Prototypicality and Identification in Mixed Race Individuals: Implications for Self-Esteem and Affirmative Action SPSP 2010 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2010-01-28 through 2010-01-30 Las Vegas, Nevada   Jessica J. Good, Assistant Professor of Psychology Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina George F. Chavez Department of Psychology Rutgers…

  • The Effects of Black Identity on Candidate Evaluations: An Exploratory Study

    The Effects of Black Identity on Candidate Evaluations: An Exploratory Study Journal of Black Studies Volume 40, Number 2 (2009) pages 215-237 DOI: 10.1177/0021934707309430 Jas M. Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Political Science Louisiana State University Keena N. Arbuthnot, Associate Professor of Education Louisiana State University Although Barack Obama’s entrance into the 2008 presidential campaign has…

  • Obama, The Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future

    Obama, The Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters Volume 31, Number 4 (2008) pages 1033–1037 DOI: 10.1353/cal.0.0282 David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History University of California at Berkeley The focus of media depictions of Barack Obama as a…

  • The Geographical Imagination of Barack Obama: Representing Race and Space in America

    The Geographical Imagination of Barack Obama: Representing Race and Space in America Southeastern Geographer Volume 49, Number 3, Fall 2009 pages 221-239 E-ISSN: 1549-6929 Print ISSN: 0038-366X DOI: 10.1353/sgo.0.0049 Robert J. Kruse, II It has been noted that the geographical work on race and space has often overlooked the geographies of individual African-Americans. This paper…