Tag: Michael Dawson

  • A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 6, Issue 01, Spring 2009 pages 1-14 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X09090018 Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard University Michael C. Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political…

  • As the son of a black Kenyan and a white American, President Obama is biracial. As a symbol of our times, he’s also called post-racial. On his census form, he classifies himself as black. Whatever he is, the categories obsess many Americans. So in advance of Randall Kennedy’s visit to Zócalo, we put the question…

  • The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America? Oxford University Press January 2011 336 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780199735204; ISBN10: 0199735204 Edited by Gregory Parks, Assistant Professor of Law Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina Matthew Hughey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Connecticut The United States has taken a long and winding…