{"id":23024,"date":"2012-05-10T01:26:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T01:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23024"},"modified":"2012-05-10T01:26:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T01:26:36","slug":"how-the-movies-made-a-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23024","title":{"rendered":"How the Movies Made a President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/18\/movies\/18darg.html\" target=\"_blank\">How the Movies Made a President<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2009-01-16<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manohla_Dargis\" target=\"_blank\">Manohla Dargis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A.O._Scott\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A. O. Scott<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama&#8217;s<\/a> victory in November demonstrated, to the surprise of many Americans and much of the world, that we were ready to see a black man as president. Of course, we had seen several black presidents already, not in the real White House but in the virtual America of movies and television. The presidencies of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Earl_Jones\" target=\"_blank\">James Earl Jones<\/a> in \u201cThe Man,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morgan_Freeman\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Freeman<\/a> in \u201cDeep Impact,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Rock\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Rock<\/a> in \u201cHead of State\u201d and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Haysbert\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Haysbert<\/a> in \u201c24\u201d helped us imagine Mr. Obama\u2019s transformative breakthrough before it occurred. In a modest way, they also hastened its arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake: Hollywood\u2019s historic refusal to embrace black artists and its insistence on racist caricatures and stereotypes linger to this day. Yet in the past 50 years\u2014or, to be precise, in the 47 years since Mr. Obama was born\u2014black men in the movies have traveled from the ghetto to the boardroom, from supporting roles in kitchens, liveries and social-problem movies to the rarefied summit of the Hollywood A-list. In those years the movies have helped images of black popular life emerge from behind what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._E._B._Du_Bois\" target=\"_blank\">W. E. B. Du Bois<\/a> called \u201ca vast veil,\u201d creating public spaces in which we could glimpse who we are and what we might become&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/18\/movies\/18darg.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Movies Made a President The New York Times 2009-01-16 Manohla Dargis A. O. Scott Barack Obama&#8217;s victory in November demonstrated, to the surprise of many Americans and much of the world, that we were ready to see a black man as president. Of course, we had seen several black presidents already, not in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,1196,8,20],"tags":[5443,5444,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-23024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-a-o-scott","tag-manohla-dargis","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024","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=23024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}