Tag: Books & Ideas

  • Color Blindness and Racial Politics in the Era of Obama Books & Ideas 2010-12-08 Andrew J. Diamond, Professor of American History and Civilization Université Paris-Sorbonne, France At a time when a supposedly “post-racial” America is becoming increasingly polarized over its first black president, historian Thomas Sugrue proposes a badly needed perspective on Obama’s attempts to…

  • Obama’s Mother Books & Ideas 2009-05-20 Gloria Origgi The American presidential election was won by a woman: Stanley Ann Dunham. Born in 1942, she died of cancer in 1995, shortly after turning 52, and thus without having seen her visionary dream realized: the election of her son, Barack Hussein Obama, as 44th President of the…

  • Race and Republicanism Books & Ideas 2015-02-23 (Originally published in laviedesidees.fr on February 17, 2014.) Dominique Schnapper, Director of Studies École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France Translated by (with the support of the Florence Gould Foundation): Michael C. Behrent Though race is socially constructed, it nonetheless really exists: consequently, Magali Bessone argues,…