{"id":4759,"date":"2010-01-26T22:26:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T22:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2013-02-20T04:51:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:51:47","slug":"faculty-spotlight-melissa-harris-lacewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4759","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Harris-Lacewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/africanamericanstudies\/news\/Newsletter-Spring_2008_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Harris-Lacewell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CAAS News<br \/>\nCenter for African American Studies<br \/>\nPrinceton University<br \/>\nSpring 2008 Newsletter<br \/>\nPages 6-7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dara-Lyn Shrager<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melissaharrislacewell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Harris-Lacewell<\/a> smiles broadly when asked about Senator Barack Obama\u2019s run for the democratic nomination for President. She is clearly a fan of both the man and his campaign.\u00a0 As a former Chicagoan, who lived in the state while Obama was first a State Senator and then a US Senator, Harris-Lacewell considers herself an Obama supporter.\u00a0 After just a few minutes spent chatting with Harris-Lacewell in her cozy Corwin Hall office, I realize how lucky Obama \u2013 or anyone for that matter \u2013 would be to find Harris-Lacewell on his side. She is a veritable storm of intelligent exuberance, possessing equal parts charm and determination. I left our meeting as a fan and supporter of Melissa Harris-Lacewell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<strong>Q.<\/strong> What do you make of the criticism that Obama is not really black?<\/p>\n<p><strong>R.<\/strong> It\u2019s wrong. Americans are really stupid about race, partly because we live so far apart from each other. <strong>Black people have always been a mixed race but whites cannot say this about themselves.<\/strong>\u00a0 Doubting his authenticity as a black candidate means that white people cannot feel good about supporting him because he\u2019s not really black. That\u2019s ridiculous.\u00a0 It also discredits his ability to make claims on the black resistance movements and other important issues.\u00a0 Obama has actively promoted himself as someone onto whom we can cast our own understandings. His race is something of a blank slate onto which we can project our own hopes, dreams and desires&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/africanamericanstudies\/news\/Newsletter-Spring_2008_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Spotlight: Melissa Harris-Lacewell CAAS News Center for African American Studies Princeton University Spring 2008 Newsletter Pages 6-7 Dara-Lyn Shrager Melissa Harris-Lacewell smiles broadly when asked about Senator Barack Obama\u2019s run for the democratic nomination for President. She is clearly a fan of both the man and his campaign.\u00a0 As a former Chicagoan, who lived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13743,8,26,394,20,25],"tags":[1917,1918,1915,6477],"class_list":["post-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-women","tag-caas-news","tag-dara-lyn-shrager","tag-melissa-harris-lacewell","tag-melissa-harris-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","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=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}