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  • Obama’s race still has bearing on media coverage

    Obama’s race still has bearing on media coverage The Louisiana Weekly 2012-09-04 Nadra Kareem Nittle, Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Maynard Institute) – Long before a little-known Illinois politician ran for president, the mainstream media focused on his race. When he flourished as a presidential candidate four years ago,…

  • Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America

    Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America Oxford University Press April 2011 240 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780195385854; ISBN10: 0195385853 Ayanna Thompson, Professor of English Arizona State University Notions, constructions, and performances of race continue to define the contemporary American experience, including America’s relationship to Shakespeare. In Passing Strange, Ayanna Thompson explores the myriad ways U.S.…

  • Barack Obama as the Great Man: Communicative Constructions of Racial Transcendence in White-Male Elite Discourses

    Barack Obama as the Great Man: Communicative Constructions of Racial Transcendence in White-Male Elite Discourses Communication Monographs Volume 78, Issue 4 (2011) pages 535-556 DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2011.618140 Christopher B. Brown, Assistant Professor of Communications Minnesota State University, Mankato This study examined responses on the potential impact of Barack Obama’s presidency from 16 semi-structured interviews with White…

  • Caribbean Fashion Week: Remodeling Beauty in “Out of Many One” Jamaica

    Caribbean Fashion Week: Remodeling Beauty in “Out of Many One” Jamaica Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture Volume 14, Number 3, September 2010 pages 387-404 DOI: 10.2752/175174110X12712411520377 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica The elitist Jamaican motto, “Out of Many, One People,“ privileges…

  • Picturing the Mix: Visual and Linguistic Representations in Kip Fulbeck’s Part Asian, 100% Hapa

    In response to perceived invisibility within a black/white racial paradigm governed by hypodescent, various multiracial people have begun to speak out against a lack of recognition of their multiplicitous identities. Along with state recognition (i.e., the 2000 census), many of these multiracial identity activists desire a sense of community built around racial multiplicity.

  • Barack Obama’s Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention: Trauma, Compromise, Consilience, and the (Im)possibility of Racial Reconciliation

    Barack Obama’s Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention: Trauma, Compromise, Consilience, and the (Im)possibility of Racial Reconciliation Rhetoric & Public Affairs Volume 8, Number 4, Winter 2005 pages 571-593 DOI: 10.1353/rap.2006.0006 David A. Frank, Professor of Rhetoric Robert D. Clark Honors College University of Oregon Mark Lawrence McPhail, Dean of The College of Arts…

  • From deracialization to racial distinction: interpreting Obama’s successful racial narrative

    From deracialization to racial distinction: interpreting Obama’s successful racial narrative Social Semiotics Volume 23, Issue 1 (2013) pages 119-145 DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2012.707039 Charlton McIlwain, Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication New York University While many scholars attribute Barack Obama’s success in the 2008 presidential election to his so-called deracialized campaign strategy, I argue that Obama…

  • Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad

    Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad antenna 2012-08-05 Keara Goin As has become abundantly clear to me over the course of my research, in the context of contemporary popular U.S. racial discourse, one is either Latina/o or Black, not both. Moreover, we see this phenomenon replicated in U.S. cinema, where characters played by…

  • Black-Yellow Fences: Multicultural Boundaries and Whiteness in the Rush Hour Franchise

    Black-Yellow Fences: Multicultural Boundaries and Whiteness in the Rush Hour Franchise Critical Studies in Media Communication Published Online: 2012-07-06 DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2012.697634 David C. Oh, Visiting Professor of Communications Villanova University The Rush Hour films disrupt the interracial buddy cop formula largely by erasing whites from the films. Despite the unconventional casting, the franchise has achieved…

  • Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

    In “Articulate While Black,” two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama’s language use—and America’s response to it