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  • “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 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…