Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Based in part on our review of discrimination cases in which President Obama’s name has been invoked—in most cases, either to demean minority workers or with an otherwise discriminatory purpose—we conclude that having a biracial, black-white (or self-identified black) president has had a surprising effect on the enforcement of anti-discrimination law. Indeed, we contend that Obama’s campaign and election have, to an extent, had an unusual effect in the work environment. Rather than revealing that racism is over or that racial discrimination is diminishing in the workplace, Obama’s presence and prominence have developed a specialized meaning that ironically has resulted in an increase in or at the very least a continuation of regular discrimination and harassment within the workplace. In fact, our review of a number of anti-discrimination law cases filed during the political ascendance and election of Obama suggests that, within certain contexts, individuals have made references to Obama in ways that demonstrate racial animus against Blacks and those associated with Blacks or as a means for explaining why offending conduct toward racial minorities does not involve discrimination. In other words, in these contexts, the term “Obama” itself has become a new tool for racial harassment and discrimination as well as a new tool for denying the reality of racism.

Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Mario L. Barnes, “The Obama Effect: Understanding Emerging Meanings of “Obama” in Anti-Discrimination Law,” Indiana Law Journal, Volume 87: Issue1 (Spring 2012): 328.

Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams: The Age of Obama and Beyond

Posted in Barack Obama, Books, Economics, Media Archive, Monographs, Philosophy, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States on 2016-01-08 03:17Z by Steven

Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams: The Age of Obama and Beyond

Broadview Press
2016-01-05
190 pages
Paperback ISBN: 9781554813162

Julius Bailey, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio

Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams is a moral call, a harkening and quickening of the spirit, a demand for recognition for those whose voices are whispered. Julius Bailey straddles the fence of social-science research and philosophy, using empirical data and current affairs to direct his empathy-laced discourse. He turns his eye to President Obama and his critics, racism, income inequality, poverty, and xenophobia, guided by a prophetic thread that calls like-minded visionaries and progressives to action. The book is an honest look at the current state of our professed city on a hill and the destruction left on the darker sides of town.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Rev. Dr. Michael L. Pfleger
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “I, Too, Sing America”
Chapter 1: “I Can’t Breathe!” “So What! F??? Your Breath”
Chapter 2: Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America
Chapter 3: Racism: The Long March to Freedom and the New Jim Crow
Chapter 4: Xenophobia: America Inside Out
Chapter 5: Poverty: A Load Too Heavy to Bear
Chapter 6: Income Inequality: The Unbridgeable Gap
Chapter 7: Repositioning the Moral Arc
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