{"id":16231,"date":"2013-03-16T16:43:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T16:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16231"},"modified":"2017-03-02T02:11:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T02:11:02","slug":"chats-is-obama-black-bi-racial-or-post-racial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16231","title":{"rendered":"Chats: Is Obama Black, Bi-racial, or Post-racial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/zocalopublicsquare.org\/thepublicsquare\/2011\/09\/07\/is-obama-black-bi-racial-or-post-racial\/read\/chats\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chats: Is Obama Black, Bi-racial, or Post-racial?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zocalopublicsquare.org\" target=\"_blank\">Z\u00f3calo: Public Square<\/a><br \/>\n2011-09-07<\/p>\n<p><em>Five Experts Comment on the Politics of Race<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.stanford.edu\/directory\/profile\/20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Thompson Ford<\/a><\/strong>, George E. Osborne Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeldawson.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael C. Dawson<\/a><\/strong>, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and\u00a0Culture<br \/>\n<em>University of Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fds.duke.edu\/db\/Provost\/clacs\/silva\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Eduardo Bonilla-Silva<\/strong>, <\/a>Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Duke University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/g-reginald-daniel\" target=\"_blank\">G. Reginald Daniel<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/Hollinger\/\" target=\"_blank\">David A. Hollinger<\/a><\/strong>, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As the son of a black Kenyan and a white American, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> is biracial. As a symbol of our times, he\u2019s also called post-racial. On his census form, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=6435\" target=\"_blank\">he classifies himself as black<\/a>. Whatever he is, the categories obsess many Americans. So in advance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=16238\" target=\"_blank\">Randall Kennedy\u2019s visit to Z\u00f3calo<\/a>, we put the question to some leading academics: Is Obama black, bi-racial, or post-racial?&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>He\u2019s Black&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;He\u2019s Black, Unfortunately&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;He\u2019s White, Unfortunately&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;He\u2019s Race-neutral, Unfortunately&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;He\u2019s All and None\u2014But Let\u2019s Give It a Rest&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/zocalopublicsquare.org\/thepublicsquare\/2011\/09\/07\/is-obama-black-bi-racial-or-post-racial\/read\/chats\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the son of a black Kenyan and a white American, President Obama is biracial. As a symbol of our times, he\u2019s 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\u2019s visit to Z\u00f3calo, we put the question to some leading academics: Is Obama black, bi-racial, or post-racial?\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,394,20],"tags":[112,166,319,142,7513,7514,7517,7516,7515,7519,7518],"class_list":["post-16231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-david-a-hollinger","tag-david-hollinger","tag-eduardo-bonilla-silva","tag-g-reginald-daniel","tag-michael-c-dawson","tag-michael-dawson","tag-richard-ford","tag-richard-t-ford","tag-richard-thompson-ford","tag-zocalo","tag-zocalo-public-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51998,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231\/revisions\/51998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}