{"id":42142,"date":"2015-08-07T23:51:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T23:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42142"},"modified":"2015-09-24T00:18:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T00:18:08","slug":"book-review-articulate-while-black-barack-obama-language-and-race-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42142","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0042085913519339\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Book Review: <\/strong><\/em><strong>Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:jruef@stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer L. Ruef<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Stanford University, Palo Alto, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uex.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Education<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/uex.sagepub.com\/content\/50\/6.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 50, Number 6<\/a> (September 2015)<br \/>\npages 776-783<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0042085913519339\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0042085913519339<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>H. S. Alim, G. Smitherman (2012). <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=24263\" target=\"_blank\">Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.<\/a><\/em> New York, NY: Oxford University Press. xv + 199 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-199-81298-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This review highlights the ways in which race is heard and played to advantage or disadvantage. From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> redefinition of presidential\u2014through his deft linguistic style-shifting\u2014to the ways race is read in the speech of students and the general public, <em>Articulate While Black<\/em> (AWB) challenges the notion of a postracial United States and persuades the reader that who decides the power of racialized English is an open question. Furthermore, it is a call to action for teachers to change the ways race is heard, leveraged, and celebrated in classrooms dedicated to equity and social justice.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/uex.sagepub.com\/content\/50\/6\/776.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review: Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. Jennifer L. Ruef Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Urban Education Volume 50, Number 6 (September 2015) pages 776-783 DOI: 10.1177\/0042085913519339 H. S. Alim, G. Smitherman (2012). Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S. New York, NY: Oxford University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,5,8,26,394,20],"tags":[9513,11230,20631,20632,20630],"class_list":["post-42142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-geneva-smitherman","tag-h-samy-alim","tag-jennifer-l-ruef","tag-jennifer-ruef","tag-urban-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42142","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=42142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42143,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42142\/revisions\/42143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}