Obama and Race
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Commentary
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Clarence Lusane: Racism, Shirley Sherrod and the Obama White House
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Ariela Gross: Race, Law and Conservatism in America
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Cary Fraser: Shirley Sherrod, Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt and American Racial Hysteria
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Victor Davis Hanson: The New Racial Mess
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: On Lacking All Conviction
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Terence Samuel: Shirley Sherrod and the Politics of Overreaction
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Scott Lemieux: Hugo Black, History’s Greatest Monster
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Victor Davis Hanson: Obama’s Real Problem
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Conversation on Race
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Claire Potter: Surely The Obama Presidency Means We Are Now Beyond Race
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Terence Samuel: Shirley Sherrod and the Politics of Overreaction
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Ari Rabin-Havt : The Willie Hortonization of Barack Obama
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Stanley Kutler: It's Still All About Race
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Betty Boyd Caroli: A White House Tea and Michelle Obama
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Thomas J. Sugrue: The Myth of Post-Racial America
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Thomas J. Sugrue: Stories and Legends [of Barack Obama]
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Melissa Harris-Lacewell: Barack Obama: Black by Choice
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Thomas Sowell: Race and Politics
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Stanley Kutler: So Much for a ‘Post-Racial’ America
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Gregory Rodriguez: The White Anxiety Crisis
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Melissa Harris-Lacewell: How Barack Obama is like Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Adriane Lentz-Smith: Reid's Obama Blunder and What It Means
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Mark Naison: Is"Schwartze" A Racial Slur? Reflections on Jackie Mason's Comedy and Yiddish Vernacular Speech
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Stuart Taylor Jr.: Let The Honest Talk About Race Begin
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Historians: No one moment can overcome America's struggle with racism
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Dayo Olopade: Why Eric Holder’s “race speech” was better than Barack Obama’s
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Eric Holder Speech Sparks Debate on Race
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. and John Stauffer: What would Lincoln make of a black president?
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Annette Gordon-Reed: Jefferson's vision
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Robert J. Harris and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn: The end of black history?
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Tom Palaima: MLK, Barack Obama and our hope for racial justice
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Paul Ortiz: Senator Obama and the Future of American Politics
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Obama's true colors: Black, white ... or neither?
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Robert Brent Toplin: The Strong Wind at His Back
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Marie Arana: He's Not Black
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Jeff Kimball: What's Going On In Ohio?
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Stanley Kutler: From LBJ to BHO
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Michael Levy: The Myth That Race Didn’t Matter
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Jason Sokol: Ed Brooke, Barack Obama, and the Color of American Politics
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Jim Sleeper: My Almost-Hidden Stake in an Obama Win
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US election: Slavery is still an issue
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Mark Naison: Hard Times Ahead ... Let's Hope We Can Come Together After This Brutal Election
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The black McCains in Mississippi voting for Obama
- Debra J. Saunders: Playing the Race Card
- David R. Roediger: What Effect Would Obama's Election Have on Race Relations?
- James Taranto: Is the"Wilder effect" the result of pro-black bias?
- Jonathan Zimmerman: A focus on diversity is keeping us apart
- James C. Cobb: How Obama Might Change the Politics of Race in Unexpected Ways
- Dick Morris: Hillary is the new Wallace
- Randal Maurice Jelks: Obama, Wright, and Trinity
- Glenda Gilmore: Incitement to Assassination Has a Special Place in the History of Racism
- Debby Applegate: Two Can Make History
- Gil Troy: Why is this race about race?
- Thomas Fleming: It's Your Turn Kentucky! (Re: Democrats' history of racism)
- Arica L. Coleman: Hillary Clinton and the Possessive Investment in Whiteness
- Leon Wieseltier: The False Prophesy Of Jeremiah Wright
- Daniel Pipes: Barack Obama's Muslim Childhood
- Manisha Sinha: Is Obama Lincoln to Hillary's Seward?
- Clare Spark: Is Reverend Wright a Black Liberationist?
- Josh Goldberg: Pastor Wright's wrong about the Tuskegee experiments
- Jim Sleeper: Obama in the Wilderness
- Ari Kelman: So Pastor Wright Would Be Controversial If He Were White?
- Noam Scheiber: Why'd Obama Join Trinity in the First Place?
- Humberto Fontova: Jeremiah Wright's Cuban Friends
- E.J.Dionne: Not to absolve Reverend Wright of his behavior, but ...
- Andrew Murphy: When is a Jeremiah not a Jeremiah?
- Jim Sleeper: Obama's Way Out of the Race Trap
- Ronald Kessler: Obama's Mythology About Pastor Wright
- Judith Apter Klinghoffer: Obama on his not"typical white" grandparents
- Sean Wilentz: Obama was the first to play the race card
- Thomas Sowell: The Audacity of Rhetoric
- James S. Robbins: ON the differences between Obama's race speech and Kennedy's religion speech
- Jeremy Cameron Young: His Bravest Moment: Obama's Refusal to Scapegoat His Pastor
- B. E. Myers: The Cultural Roots of the Dismissive Argument that Obama Supporters Are “Obamamaniacs”
- David Kaiser: Obama's Speech: A Turning Point
- Rick Shenkman: Has Obama Found Himself Trapped by a Myth?
- KC Johnson: Obama, Race, and North Carolina
- Rick Shenkman: An advantage thrown away
- Edward J. Blum: Interviewed about Obama and race
- Andrew Meyer: Obama, Race, and History
- Catharine Crier: Religious Bigotry Across the Board
- Nicholas Kristof: Obama and Race
- E.J. Dionne: Jeremiah Wright is not as far outside the African-American mainstream as many would like to think.
- Steven Waldman: John Adams ... God Damn America
- Peggy Noonan: A Thinking Man's Speech
- Julian E. Zelizer: How Democrats can lose in November
- Joseph Lane: Ok, There’s Jeremiah Wright, but What About John Hagee, Pat Robertson
- Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's speech ... Untruth upon untruth—our new Nixon?
- Gil Troy: Obama’s Speech Moves from Political Spin to Historic Vision
- "Spengler": The peculiar theology of black liberation
- Edwin Black: Barack Obama--Mentored by an anti-American, anti-Zionist Black Separatist
- Shelby Steele: The Obama Bargain
- Edward J. Blum: “God Damn America” in Black and White
- Ralph Luker: Jeremiah
- Mark Steyn: Obama's pastor disaster
- Gerald Posner: Rev Wright and Barack
- Nicholas J. G. Winter: Why Race, Gender, and Politics Are Dangerous Frames
- Daniel Pipes:"America's Chickens are Coming Home to Roost"
- Sean Wilentz: Response to Orlando Patterson's essays on the Clinton campaign's use of race
- Sean Wilentz: Response to Orlando Patterson's essays on the Clinton campaign's use of race
- Sean Wilentz: Hold On--'3 A.M.' Wasn't Racist
- Michael Knox Beran: Obama’s Messianic Politics ... Why his healer-redeemer rhetoric has a limited appeal
- Jim Sleeper: Has History Canceled Farrakhan’s Endorsement?
- Sean Wilentz: How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton
- Shelby Steele: Why Obama is a"bound man" (interview)
- Sean Wilentz: Obama's misuse of history (About LBJ and Civil Rights laws)
- Allegra Goodman: Forget Kenya and Kansas, black and white. To understand Obama, understand this ... The man is Hawaiian.
- David Greenberg: Why Obamamania? Because He Runs as The Great White Hope.
- Sean Wilentz: To understand Hillary Clinton's"race problem," we must better understand the history of civil rights.
- Rick Shenkman: Would Barack Obama be plausible as a candidate for the presidency at this stage in his career if he weren't black?