{"id":7927,"date":"2010-07-09T19:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T19:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7927"},"modified":"2018-02-03T03:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T03:03:43","slug":"why-obama-is-black-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7927","title":{"rendered":"Why Obama is Black Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/humanexperience.stanford.edu\/race-elam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Obama is Black Again<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thinking Twice: RACE<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news-service.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Stanford Review<\/a><br \/>\n2009-01-29<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/english.stanford.edu\/people\/michele-elam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michele Elam<\/a><\/strong>, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education<br \/>\n<em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inauguration_of_Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama\u2019s inauguration<\/a> was for so many an awe-inspiring, historic and transnational event: It was full of grand pageantry and a good-humored pomp and circumstance that made D.C. the place to be. People were called together in many ways, and one of the more important ways they were asked to unite was over the contentious matter of race.<\/p>\n<p>But it is worthwhile noting that this unlikely racial consensus was achieved through a strategic kind of absenting: Gone from the inaugural coverage were all the hand-wringing equivocations preceding the Democratic nomination about whether Obama\u2019s person and politics went \u201cbeyond race\u201d (and if that was a good thing or not), whether he even met the minimum standards for blackness (it was never clear who got to wield this racial measuring stick), or whether he was capitalizing on what novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzysenna.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danzy Senna<\/a> calls the \u201cmulatto millennium\u201d of mixed-race celebrities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/historynewsnetwork.org\/article\/60960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Obama is Black Again Thinking Twice: RACE The Stanford Review 2009-01-29 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University Barack Obama\u2019s inauguration was for so many an awe-inspiring, historic and transnational event: It was full of grand pageantry and a good-humored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,394,20],"tags":[1386],"class_list":["post-7927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-michele-elam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927","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=7927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55653,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions\/55653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}