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  • Obama’s election changed racial identity of black students

    Obama’s election changed racial identity of black students Chronicle Online Cornell University 2012-02-16 Karene Booker, Extension Support Specialist Department of Human Development Barack Obama’s historic election in 2008 stimulated individual and national reflection on race and changed African-American college students’ perceptions of being black, reports a new Cornell study published in Developmental Psychology (47:6). But…

  • Changes in racial identity among African American college students following the election of Barack Obama

    Changes in racial identity among African American college students following the election of Barack Obama Developmental Psychology Volume 47, Number 6 (November 2011) pages 1608-1618 DOI: 10.1037/a0025284 Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell, Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow University of Wisconsin, Madison Anthony L. Burrow, Assistant Professor of Human Development Cornell University Anthony D. Ong, Associate Professor of…

  • Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race

    Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race Princeton University Press 2010 178 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth ISBN: 9780691137308 eBook ISBN: 9781400834198 Thomas J. Sugrue, David Boies Professor of History and Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania Finalist, The 2010 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award,…

  • (19) Half-frican: Black Identity in the Caribbean, England, and the United States

    (19) Half-frican: Black Identity in the Caribbean, England, and the United States The Colloge of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 2011 Shannon King, Assistant Professor of History During the last presidential election, Rush Limbaugh, the controversial and conservative Republican radio personality, dubbed Barack H. Obama, our 44th President of the United States, as a “Half-frican.” Limbaugh, in…

  • In the Shadow of Her Ancestry: The New Tragic Mulatta

    In the Shadow of Her Ancestry: The New Tragic Mulatta North Carolina State University, Raleigh 2004 60 pages Vonda Marie Easterling A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Carolina State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts This thesis examines the plight of the infamous tragic…

  • Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping

    Sharing Outsider Status and a Style of Coping The New York Times 2012-05-25 Jodi Kantor The United States quietly passed a milestone this spring, mostly lost amid the clamor of the presidential race: for the first time, neither party’s candidate is a white Protestant. The contenders are both from outsider groups that were once persecuted,…

  • Left By the Ship

    Left By the Ship Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service 2010 Filmmakers: Emma Rossi-Landi Alberto Vendemmiati  In the 1970s and 1980s, the world was touched by the stories of Amerasian children, the offspring of U.S. military personnel stationed in Asia and the Pacific in the aftermath of World War II, and during the Korean and Vietnam…

  • The Myth of Majority-Minority America

    The Myth of Majority-Minority America Slate 2012-05-22 Matthew Yglesias, Business and Economics Correspondent It’s rare that a Census Bureau press release dominates the front pages, but last week’s headline “Most Children Younger Than 1 Are Minorities, Census Reports” was the thrilling exception. The shortage of white Anglo babies, the press was eager to tell us,…

  • Kept in, kept out: the Formation of Racial Identity in Brazil, 1930-1937

    Kept in, kept out: the Formation of Racial Identity in Brazil, 1930-1937 Simon Fraser University November 1996 95 pages Veronica Armstrong Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Latin American Studies Program This thesis examines the roles of historian Gilberto Freyre and the Sao Paulo…

  • Race and Ethnicity in “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “The Rise of David Levinsky”: The Performative Difference

    Race and Ethnicity in “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” and “The Rise of David Levinsky”: The Performative Difference MELUS Volume 29, Numbers 3/4, (Autumn-Winter, 2004), Pedagody, Canon, Context: Toward a Redefinition of Ethnic American Literary Studies pages 307-321 Catherine Rottenberg, Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program Ben-Gurion…