{"id":45767,"date":"2016-02-24T22:36:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T22:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45767"},"modified":"2017-05-03T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:06:48","slug":"michigan-in-color-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45767","title":{"rendered":"Michigan in Color: Authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan in Color: Authenticity<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Michigan Daily: The campus newspaper of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor<\/a>
\n2016-02-18<\/p>\n

Michael Chrzan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nCourtesy of Michael Chrzan<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

In an article for the National Review<\/em> late last year, senior editor Jonah Goldberg<\/a> discussed the (now former) popularity of Ben Carson<\/a> amongst the GOP<\/a>. He said \u201c \u2026 most analysis of Carson\u2019s popularity from pundits focuses on his likable personality and his sincere Christian faith. But it\u2019s intriguingly rare to hear people talk about the fact that he\u2019s black. One could argue that he\u2019s even more authentically African-American than Barack Obama<\/a> \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n

Goldberg makes this statement and then goes on to make a number of claims as to why President Obama is not \u201cauthentically African-American\u201d enough, at least when compared to Carson.<\/p>\n

\u201c \u2026 Obama\u2019s mother was white and he was raised in part by his white grandparents. In his autobiography, Obama writes at length about how he grew up outside the traditional African-American experience \u2014 in Hawaii<\/a> and Indonesia<\/a> \u2014 and how he consciously chose to adopt a black identity when he was in college.\u201d…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This isn’t a new sentiment. Many people of many different races have often brought up Obama’s racial heritage as a way to discredit his Blackness. In fact, a 2014 article by the Washington Post<\/em><\/a> shows most of America doesn’t consider the president as Black, but as \u201cmixed race.\u201d The problem with this line of thinking stems from how we conceptualize multi-racial identities in this country \u2014 one with a history of hypodescent<\/a> ideologies, like the infamous one-drop rule<\/a>. The problem with this line of thinking is that all Obama needs to be \u201cauthentically\u201d Black is to be Black, and that he most definitely is…<\/p>\n

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

In an article for the National Review late last year, senior editor Jonah Goldberg discussed the (now former) popularity of Ben Carson amongst the GOP. He said \u201c \u2026 most analysis of Carson\u2019s popularity from pundits focuses on his likable personality and his sincere Christian faith. But it\u2019s intriguingly rare to hear people talk about the fact that he\u2019s black. One could argue that he\u2019s even more authentically African-American than Barack Obama \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,125,8,26,20],"tags":[21335,23064,17014,17013],"class_list":["post-45767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-ben-carson","tag-michael-chrzan","tag-michigan-daily","tag-the-michigan-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45767","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=45767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53763,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45767\/revisions\/53763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}