{"id":28679,"date":"2013-02-11T00:07:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T00:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28679"},"modified":"2013-02-11T00:07:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T00:07:52","slug":"france-the-socialists%e2%80%99-new-head-harlem-desir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28679","title":{"rendered":"France: The Socialists\u2019 New Head, Harlem D\u00e9sir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2012\/10\/28\/france-the-socialists-new-head-harlem-desir.html\" target=\"_blank\">France: The Socialists\u2019 New Head, Harlem D\u00e9sir<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a> (In Newsweek Magazine)<br \/>\n2012-10-29<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/contributors\/tracy-mcnicoll.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tracy McNicoll<\/a><\/strong>, Paris correspondent<\/p>\n<p><em>The faded star of a French anti-racist icon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a country that went tipsy with Obamania four years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_D%C3%A9sir\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem D\u00e9sir\u2019s<\/a> election to lead France\u2019s ruling Socialist Party might seem an occasion for bubbly. D\u00e9sir\u2014whose gifts include the coolest name in French politics\u2014is the nation\u2019s first black party leader. But his rise has elicited stunning indifference. In September, 74 percent of French poll respondents said they didn\u2019t care. Only half of card-carrying Socialists bothered to cast their ballots. And the critics have been even less kind&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2012\/10\/28\/france-the-socialists-new-head-harlem-desir.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France: The Socialists\u2019 New Head, Harlem D\u00e9sir The Daily Beast (In Newsweek Magazine) 2012-10-29 Tracy McNicoll, Paris correspondent The faded star of a French anti-racist icon. In a country that went tipsy with Obamania four years ago, Harlem D\u00e9sir\u2019s election to lead France\u2019s ruling Socialist Party might seem an occasion for bubbly. D\u00e9sir\u2014whose gifts include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,8,26],"tags":[96,12218,13384,13607],"class_list":["post-28679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-france","tag-harlem-desir","tag-the-daily-beast","tag-tracy-mcnicoll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28679","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=28679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}