{"id":46024,"date":"2016-03-13T23:02:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46024"},"modified":"2016-03-13T23:02:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:02:41","slug":"obama%ef%bb%bf-co-existed-sometimes-uneasily-with-substitute-blackness-picked-and-chose-among-instances-of-surplus-blackness-and-toward-the-end-of-his-presidency-after-being-forced-into-it-by-bl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46024","title":{"rendered":"Obama\ufeff co-existed, sometimes uneasily, with substitute blackness; picked and chose among instances of surplus blackness; and, toward the end of his presidency, after being forced into it by blood and renewed protests in the streets, came to a truce with subversive blackness."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a> co-existed, sometimes uneasily, with substitute blackness; picked and chose among instances of surplus blackness; and, toward the end of his presidency, after being forced into it by blood and renewed protests in the streets, came to a truce with subversive blackness. But for much of his presidency he preferred, and personified, symbolic blackness: His very success\u2014embodied in the sight of him and his gifted and beautiful black family in the nation\u2019s most stellar public housing\u2014was sufficient to signify black progress, many thought. He could make black folk proud by casually descending the stairs of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Air_Force_One\" target=\"_blank\">Air Force One<\/a>, or inviting black icons like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jay_Z\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Z<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beyonc%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a>. Black swag at its best. And something that white Americans who had voted Obama into office could cheer too, desperately hoping to be finally done with the tiring and unsolvable conundrum of race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Eric Dyson, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46020\" target=\"_blank\">Whose President Was He?<\/a>\u201d <em>Politico Magazine<\/em>, Volume 3, Number 2 (January\/February 2016). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/01\/barack-obama-race-relations-213493\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/01\/barack-obama-race-relations-213493<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama co-existed, sometimes uneasily, with substitute blackness; picked and chose among instances of surplus blackness; and, toward the end of his presidency, after being forced into it by blood and renewed protests in the streets, came to a truce with subversive blackness. But for much of his presidency he preferred, and personified, symbolic blackness: His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11229,14578,19629],"class_list":["post-46024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-michael-eric-dyson","tag-politico","tag-politico-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46024","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=46024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46025,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46024\/revisions\/46025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}