{"id":45786,"date":"2016-02-25T02:28:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T02:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45786"},"modified":"2016-02-25T02:28:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T02:28:24","slug":"did-obama-inspire-a-big-debate-on-identity-you-weighed-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45786","title":{"rendered":"Did Obama Inspire A Big Debate On Identity? You Weighed In"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did Obama Inspire A Big Debate On Identity? You Weighed In<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity<\/a>
\nNational Public Radio<\/a>
\n2016-02-23<\/p>\n

Leah Donnella<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nLaurie Avocado<\/a>\/Flickr Creative Commons<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Last week, Code Switch raised the curtain on “The Obama Effect<\/a>,” our quest to understand what the nation’s first black president has to do with the big national conversations on identity and inclusion swirling in full force right now.<\/p>\n

That quest began with you. On Friday, we took to Twitter with the hashtag #NPRObamaEffect<\/a> and asked you to weigh in: If somebody else had come into office on Jan. 20, 2009, do you think we’d be having all these conversations about identity? Has the way you identify yourself as a person of color \u2014 or as a white person \u2014 changed over the last eight years? Have your personal politics around race shifted post-Obama<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Some people said yes, but weren’t lining up to credit Obama:…<\/p>\n

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

Did Obama Inspire A Big Debate On Identity? You Weighed In Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-02-23 Leah Donnella Laurie Avocado\/Flickr Creative Commons Last week, Code Switch raised the curtain on “The Obama Effect,” our quest to understand what the nation’s first black president has to do with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,20],"tags":[14788,23061,2309,2833],"class_list":["post-45786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-code-switch","tag-leah-donnella","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45786","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=45786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45787,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45786\/revisions\/45787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}