{"id":25245,"date":"2012-09-08T01:10:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T01:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25245"},"modified":"2012-09-08T01:10:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T01:10:42","slug":"obama%e2%80%99s-race-still-has-bearing-on-media-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25245","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s race still has bearing on media coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.louisianaweekly.com\/obama%E2%80%99s-race-still-has-bearing-on-media-coverage\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=obama%25e2%2580%2599s-race-still-has-bearing-on-media-coverage\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s race still has bearing on media coverage<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.louisianaweekly.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Louisiana Weekly<\/a><br \/>\n2012-09-04<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nadra Kareem Nittle<\/strong>, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Maynard Institute<\/strong>) \u2013 Long before a little-known Illinois politician ran for president, the mainstream media focused on his race. When he flourished as a presidential candidate four years ago, everyone in America knew that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> was Black.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHave his blackness and extensive coverage of that fact boosted his political career or made it more difficult for him to win re-election? Perhaps surprisingly, some of the nation\u2019s best political minds are divided on this question.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nObama\u2019s race dominated media coverage about him before he became president. In 2004, he made headlines for becoming only the third African-American elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction. In the 2008 presidential campaign, news stories questioned whether he could connect with African-American voters because he was born to a white Kansan mother and a Black Kenyan father, neither connected to Blacks in America.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhen Obama became the first Black president, mainstream media portrayed his historic accomplishment as a symbol of a post-racial, colorblind America. That framing is contrary to the experience of millions of African-Americans and other people of color beset by conscious and unconscious bias daily in this country.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs Obama\u2019s first term nears its end, the impact of his race in mainstream media coverage remains unclear&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louisianaweekly.com\/obama%E2%80%99s-race-still-has-bearing-on-media-coverage\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=obama%25e2%2580%2599s-race-still-has-bearing-on-media-coverage\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u2019s race still has bearing on media coverage The Louisiana Weekly 2012-09-04 Nadra Kareem Nittle, Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Maynard Institute) \u2013 Long before a little-known Illinois politician ran for president, the mainstream media focused on his race. When he flourished as a presidential candidate four years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8413,8,26,20],"tags":[9160,6297,11784],"class_list":["post-25245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-louisiana-weekly","tag-nadra-kareem-nittle","tag-the-louisiana-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25245","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=25245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}