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  • When a Boy Found a Familiar Feel in a Pat of the Head of State

    A copy of the photo hangs in the Philadelphia family’s living room with several others taken that day. Mr. Philadelphia, now in Afghanistan for the State Department, said: “It’s important for black children to see a black man as president. You can believe that any position is possible to achieve if you see a black…

  • Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity

    Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity The New York Times 2012-05-22 Susan Saulny SALT LAKE CITY — When Marguerite Driessen, a professor here, entered Brigham Young University in the early 1980s, she was the first black person many Mormon students had ever met, and she spent a good bit of her college time debunking…

  • Modern Love: Navigating New Trenches After a Breakup

    Modern Love: Navigating New Trenches After a Breakup The New York Times 2012-05-18 Kate McGovern Cambridge, Massachusetts Some years ago, when I was living in Britain, I received an e-mail from a college friend who had recently announced her first pregnancy. “We have become good friends with a black/white couple,” she wrote. “They have a…

  • Multiracial Americans Ready To Claim Their Own Identity

    Multiracial Americans Ready To Claim Their Own Identity The New York Times 1996-07-20 Michel Marriott For Alison Perry, being multiracial has meant moving through life as if she had a giant question mark drawn on her forehead. Strangers frequently approach and begin a vexing guessing game: “Are you Israeli?” “Are you a Latina?” “Where are…

  • Finding a Match, and a Mission: Helping Blacks Survive Cancer

    Finding a Match, and a Mission: Helping Blacks Survive Cancer The New York Times 2012-05-11 Donald G. McNeil, Jr. A month after his 2009 graduation from Yale Law School, Seun Adebiyi learned he had not one but two lethal blood cancers and began an odyssey to find a bone-marrow donor. Mr. Adebiyi, 28, who came…

  • How the Movies Made a President

    How the Movies Made a President The New York Times 2009-01-16 Manohla Dargis A. O. Scott Barack Obama’s victory in November demonstrated, to the surprise of many Americans and much of the world, that we were ready to see a black man as president. Of course, we had seen several black presidents already, not in…

  • Elizabeth Warren’s Birther Moment

    Elizabeth Warren’s Birther Moment The New York Times 2012-05-04 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University If you are 1/32 Cherokee and your grandfather has high cheekbones, does that make you Native American? It depends. Last Friday, Republicans in Massachusetts questioned the racial ancestry of Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senate candidate. Her opponent,…

  • 4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters

    4 Years Later, Race Is Still Issue for Some Voters The New York Times 2012-05-03 Sabrina Tavernise STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — This is the land of die-hard Democrats — mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run…

  • Hitting the Right Rhythm to Tell Marley’s Story

    Hitting the Right Rhythm to Tell Marley’s Story The New York Times 2012-04-06 John Anderson Of all the friends, lovers, relatives and Rastas that the director Kevin Macdonald wrangled into his new documentary, “Marley,” one of his favorite finds was Dudley Sibley, a onetime recording artist and the janitor at the Jamaican recording studio where…

  • In Arizona, Censoring Questions About Race

    In Arizona, Censoring Questions About Race The New York Times 2012-04-01 Linda Martín Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy Hunter College, City University of New York In recent weeks, the state of Arizona has intensified its attack in its schools on an entire branch of study — critical race theory. Books and literature that, in the state’s…