{"id":48188,"date":"2016-07-10T22:55:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T22:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48188"},"modified":"2016-07-10T22:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T22:56:47","slug":"the-black-presidency-barack-obama-and-the-politics-of-race-in-america-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48188","title":{"rendered":"The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z0oD3zyUh38\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCoiTVuiMdqBRMSBGMEcmxCw\">The Aspen Institute<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-02<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0oD3zyUh38?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelericdyson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Eric Dyson<\/a> notes in the introduction to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45273\" target=\"_blank\">his 2016 book<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">[President] Obama<\/a> provoked great hope and fear about what a black presidency might mean to our democracy. White and black folk, and brown and beige ones, too have had their views of race and politics turned topsy-turvy.\u201d Join Dyson and <em>The Washington Post\u2019s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/capehartj\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Capehart<\/a> for a look at how the politics of race have shaped Obama\u2019s identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has Obama dealt publicly with race\u2014as the national traumas of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice\" target=\"_blank\">Tamir Rice<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trayvon_Martin\" target=\"_blank\">Trayvon Martin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Brown<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_of_Eric_Garner\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Garner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_of_Freddie_Gray\" target=\"_blank\">Freddie Gray<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Walter_Scott\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Scott<\/a> have played out during his tenure? What can we learn from the president&#8217;s major speeches about his approach to racial conflict and the black criticism it provokes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America The Aspen Institute 2016-07-02 As Michael Eric Dyson notes in the introduction to his 2016 book, \u201c[President] Obama provoked great hope and fear about what a black presidency might mean to our democracy. White and black folk, and brown and beige ones, too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,8,26,394,20,842],"tags":[24451,24452,11229,14627],"class_list":["post-48188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-videos","tag-jonathan-capehart","tag-jonathan-t-capehart","tag-michael-eric-dyson","tag-the-aspen-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48188","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=48188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48190,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48188\/revisions\/48190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}