Did Obama Inspire A Big Debate On Identity? You Weighed In |
Did Obama Inspire A Big Debate On Identity? You Weighed In
Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity
National Public Radio
2016-02-23
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Last week, Code Switch raised the curtain on “The Obama Effect,” our quest to understand what the nation’s first black president has to do with the big national conversations on identity and inclusion swirling in full force right now.
That quest began with you. On Friday, we took to Twitter with the hashtag #NPRObamaEffect and asked you to weigh in: If somebody else had come into office on Jan. 20, 2009, do you think we’d be having all these conversations about identity? Has the way you identify yourself as a person of color — or as a white person — changed over the last eight years? Have your personal politics around race shifted post-Obama?
Some people said yes, but weren’t lining up to credit Obama:…
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