{"id":51257,"date":"2017-01-20T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51257"},"modified":"2017-01-20T14:44:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:44:54","slug":"our-children-can-become-president-too-obamas-presidency-was-a-dream-realized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51257","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our children can become president, too\u2019: Obama\u2019s presidency was a dream\u00a0realized"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Our children can become president, too\u2019: Obama\u2019s presidency was a dream\u00a0realized<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Grio<\/a>
\n2017-01-19<\/p>\n

Kevin Cokley<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Educational Psychology; Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies
\nUniversity of Texas, Austin<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nLarge crowds watch the inauguration of Barack Obama<\/a> as the 44th president of the United States<\/a> on a large screen in the neighborhood of Harlem<\/a> on January 20, 2009, in New York City<\/a>. (Photo by Chris McGrath\/Getty Images<\/em>)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Friday marks the end of an historic and improbable presidency of Barack Hussein Obama<\/a>, the first black president of the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his 2008 victory speech<\/a>, President Obama emphasized a message of hope and said that \u201cchange had come to America.\u201d His presidency marked what some believed was a milestone in race relations and the ushering in of a \u201cpostracial\u201d country.<\/p>\n

For African-Americans, President Obama was a powerful symbol of what African-Americans\u00a0could achieve in a country stained by a history of anti-black racism and oppression. So, what was the psychological impact of Barack Obama\u2019s presidency on black America?<\/p>\n

As an African-American professor of psychology and Black Studies and a scholar on racial identity, I am particularly interested in this question. The election of Obama as president was an indicator for some African-Americans that racism against blacks was finally decreasing. Black people\u00a0became much more optimistic<\/a> about the \u2018American dream.\u2019…<\/p>\n

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

\u2018Our children can become president, too\u2019: Obama\u2019s presidency was a dream\u00a0realized The Grio 2017-01-19 Kevin Cokley, Professor of Educational Psychology; Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Large crowds watch the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States on a large screen in the neighborhood of […]<\/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":[18325,26023,3999],"class_list":["post-51257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-kevin-cokley","tag-kevin-o-cokley","tag-the-grio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51257","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=51257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51258,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51257\/revisions\/51258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}