Tag: Zócalo

  • 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…

  • Whoa, We Have a Black President Zócalo: Public Square 2011-09-08 Randall Kennedy Assesses Obama’s Triumphs—and Shortcomings—In Erasing the Color Line Randall Kennedy, Harvard professor of law and author of The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, had an assignment: to answer whether or not Obama has been erasing the color…