Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Saluting a Dream, and Adapting It for a New Era

2013-08-29

Saluting a Dream, and Adapting It for a New Era The New York Times 2013-08-28 Peter Baker and Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON — President Obama stepped into the space on Wednesday where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once stood, summoning his iconic dream of a colorblind society in a celebration of a half-century…
Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests

2012-07-30

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…