{"id":23426,"date":"2012-05-27T02:43:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T02:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23426"},"modified":"2013-06-25T21:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T21:09:10","slug":"obamas-election-changed-racial-identity-of-black-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23426","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s election changed racial identity of black students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama’s election changed racial identity of black students<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Chronicle Online<\/a>
\nCornell University
\n2012-02-16<\/p>\n

Karene Booker<\/a><\/strong>, Extension Support Specialist
\nDepartment of Human Development<\/p>\n

Barack Obama’s<\/a> historic election in 2008 stimulated individual and national reflection on race and changed African-American college students’ perceptions of being black, reports a new Cornell study<\/a> published in Developmental Psychology<\/em><\/a> (47:6<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But how these changes will shape public discourse as the 2012 presidential campaign unfolds or whether the 2012 election outcome will generate similar changes in racial identity is still unknown, say the researchers.<\/p>\n

“Obama’s election triggered deep explorations or ‘encounter experiences’ in which these African-Americans [in our study] were challenged to think through the importance and positive value that can be associated with being black,” said Anthony Burrow<\/a>, assistant professor of human development in Cornell’s College of Human Ecology, co-author of the study with Anthony Ong<\/a>, associate professor of human development at Cornell, and lead author Thomas Fuller-Rowell, Ph.D.<\/a> ’10, now a Robert Wood Johnson postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obama’s election changed racial identity of black students Chronicle Online Cornell University 2012-02-16 Karene Booker, Extension Support Specialist Department of Human Development Barack Obama’s historic election in 2008 stimulated individual and national reflection on race and changed African-American college students’ perceptions of being black, reports a new Cornell study published in Developmental Psychology (47:6). But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,2895,125,8,20],"tags":[10914,10911,10913,10912,10915,4984,10908,10909,10910],"class_list":["post-23426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-anthony-burrow","tag-anthony-d-ong","tag-anthony-l-burrow","tag-anthony-ong","tag-chronicle-online","tag-cornell-university","tag-developmental-psychology","tag-thomas-e-fuller-rowell","tag-thomas-fuller-rowell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23426","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=23426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}