{"id":22627,"date":"2012-04-22T22:24:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T22:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22627"},"modified":"2012-10-25T07:40:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T07:40:29","slug":"%e2%80%98mutts-like-me%e2%80%99-multiracial-students%e2%80%99-perceptions-of-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22627","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mutts like Me\u2019: Multiracial Students\u2019 Perceptions of Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11133-012-9226-4\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Mutts like Me\u2019: Multiracial Students\u2019 Perceptions of Barack Obama<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/0162-0436\/\" target=\"_blank\">Qualitative Sociology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/0162-0436\/35\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 35, Number 2<\/a> (2012)<br \/>\npages 183-200<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s11133-012-9226-4\" target=\"_blank\">10.1007\/s11133-012-9226-4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelpjeffries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael P. Jeffries<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Existent sociological studies of multiracialism in the United States focus on identity construction, the cultural and legislative battle over multiracial categorization, and the implications of demographic shifts towards an increasingly \u201cmixed race\u201d population. This article engages literature from each of these areas, and uses data from in-depth interviews with self-identified multiracial students to document their perceptions of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> and trace the symbolic boundaries of multiracial identity. Interviews are specifically directed towards the influence of race on Obama\u2019s identity management and political career, the relationship between Obama and respondents\u2019 multiracial identity, and Obama\u2019s impact on America\u2019s racial history. Respondents hold favorable opinions of the President despite his inconsistent affirmation of multiracial identity. <strong>They believe that emphasis on Obama\u2019s blackness rather than multiracialism is the unfortunate result of both personal choices and political pressures. In addition, the cohort insists that racism remains is a major factor in Obama\u2019s career and in America at large.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0the entire\u00a0article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/g7662384v321g108\/fulltext.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Mutts like Me\u2019: Multiracial Students\u2019 Perceptions of Barack Obama Qualitative Sociology Volume 35, Number 2 (2012) pages 183-200 DOI: 10.1007\/s11133-012-9226-4 Michael P. Jeffries, Assistant Professor of American Studies Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Existent sociological studies of multiracialism in the United States focus on identity construction, the cultural and legislative battle over multiracial categorization, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,2895,8,394,20],"tags":[10500,10499,10498],"class_list":["post-22627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-michael-jeffries","tag-michael-p-jeffries","tag-qualitative-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627","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=22627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}