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  • Barack Obama’s “Slave” Ancestor and the Politics of Genealogy

    Barack Obama’s “Slave” Ancestor and the Politics of Genealogy George Mason University’s History News Network 2012-08-02 Honor Sachs, Assistant Professor of History Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina On July 30, the New York Times broke a story about the Obama family’s ties to slavery. Not Michelle Obama. Her family connection to slavery has been…

  • “Tense and Tender Ties”: a review of Janny Scott’s A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother (2011)

    “Tense and Tender Ties”: a review of Janny Scott’s A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother (2011) Transition Number 108 (2012) pages 129-140 Kimberly DaCosta, Associate Professor of Sociology; Associate Dean of Students New York University, Gallatin Psychologically conflicted, confused, traitorous, tragic, and deracinated: the public vocabulary used to describe multiracial people…

  • Obama’s purported link to early American slave is latest twist in family tree

    Obama’s purported link to early American slave is latest twist in family tree The Washington Post 2012-07-30 Krissah Thompson President Obama’s extraordinary family story gained a new layer this week as a team of genealogists found evidence that he is most likely a descendant of one of the first documented African slaves in this country.…

  • Ancestry.com Discovers President Obama Related to First Documented Slave in America

    Ancestry.com Discovers President Obama Related to First Documented Slave in America Ancestry.com Provo, Utah 2012-07-30 Research Connects First African-American President to First African Slave in the American Colonies PROVO, UTAH – July 30, 2012 – A research team from Ancestry.com (NASDAQ:ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, has concluded that President Barack Obama is…

  • Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests

    Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests The New York Times 2012-07-30 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — President Obama’s biography — son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas — has long suggested that unlike most African-Americans, his roots did not…

  • A White Woman From Kansas

    A White Woman From Kansas The New York Times 2011-06-02 Roger Cohen LONDON—For a long time Barack Obama’s mother was little more than the “white woman from Wichita” mentioned in an early Los Angeles Times profile of the future president. She was the pale Kansan silhouette against whom Obama drew the vivid Kenyan figure of…

  • A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother

    A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother Riverhead an Imprint of Penguin Press 2011-05-03 384 pages 9.25 x 6.25in Hardcover ISBN: 9781594487972 Paperback ISBN: 9781594485596 Janny Scott A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama—his mother. Barack Obama has written extensively…

  • Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President

    Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President ABC-CLIO Praeger September 2011 276 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38533-9 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-313-38534-6 Dinesh Sharma, Senior Fellow Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research St. Francis College, New York Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama,…