Choose the More Likely Scenario: An African-American President of the United States or President of an Ivy League College?

1993 ◽  
pp. 20
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ivy League ◽  
American President

Analysis of Black American Voters in Barack Obama’s Victory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black American ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
2008 Presidential Election ◽  
Black Voter ◽  
American President

This chapter probes the electoral attributes of a special political dynamic that contributed significantly to Barack Obama's victory in both the 2008 Democratic primary contests and in the national presidential election. That special political dynamic involved the unique contribution of African American voters (hereafter referred to as the Black Voter Bloc or BVB) in facilitating Obama's election as the first African American President of the United States. It argues that the BVB played a critical electoral role in the Obama campaign's delegate count victory in the Democratic primaries by early July 2008 and in the Obama–Biden Democratic ticket's victory over the McCain–Palin Republican ticket in the November 4, 2008, presidential election.

Barack Obama and the Politics of Race

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martell Teasley ◽  
David Ikard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Free Society ◽  
American President ◽  
Politics Of Race ◽  
Racial Lines

Many scholars across racial lines argue that the historic election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States marks the dawning of a “postracial era” in our country. Despite this claim and unprecedented enthusiasm that abounds within African American circles about the direction of race relations in this country, there seems to be a glaring ideological disconnect between the desire and reality of a race-free society. Focusing attention on this disconnect and the symbolic capital of “hope” that Obama’s presidency constitutes for the Black community, this article exposes the potential pitfalls of wholesale investment in postracial thinking, particularly for the most economically vulnerable African American populations. Chief among the questions that the authors ask is how African Americans can productively address the continuing challenges of race-centric oppression under an Obama administration that is itself an embodiment of this postrace thinking.

Yes, We Did? Educational Equity in a New “Post-Racial” Society

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (14) ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Adrienne D. Dixson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Educational Equity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
American President

The election of Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States of America marked a watershed moment in American politics. Campaigning on the slogans, “Si se puede!” and “Hope” and “Change,” many Americans, regardless of race, had hoped that his election would also signal an improvement and progress in U.S. race relations and usher in a “post-racial” moment in the United States. This chapter draws on personal narrative to examine the post-racial rhetoric within the context of a multicultural and equity studies doctoral course.

scholarly journals THE DIVERSITY CHALLENGE

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-266
Author(s):  
Lawrence D. Bobo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electoral College ◽  
Popular Vote ◽  
American President ◽  
Economic Collapse

To characterize U.S. politics today as polarized is to state the obvious. Nevertheless, Barack Obama's election as the forty-fourth and first African American president of the United States in 2008 had an air of inevitability to it. The presidency of George W. Bush was at that point widely regarded as a profound failure. His administration had mishandled two on-going wars, brought us the nationally humbling debacle of hurricane Katrina, and took us to the brink of economic collapse. And thus the Democratic party nominee for president, who happened to be Black, was handily elected with 53% of the popular vote, carrying twenty-eight states and with some 365 electoral college votes.

Possible Gender Bias in Ivy League and Selective Colleges

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 970-970
Author(s):  
Russell Eisenman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High School ◽  
African American ◽  
College Women ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ivy League ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Selective Colleges ◽  
States Data

In a 1991 report it was shown that many college women, especially conservatives, would not want a woman or an African-American to be President of the United States. Data are presented from a 1989 report by Persell and Cookson of 1035 high school seniors, showing Ivy League colleges and other highly selective colleges appeared to discriminate against female applicants. Even though both male and female applicants were from the pool of what elite colleges might consider to be the most qualified candidates, 92% of the boys but only 77% of the girls were accepted by the colleges.

Black Lives Matter

Transfers ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod Clare
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
African American History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
American President

It has been over forty years since the mostly successful conclusion of the Civil Rights movement in the United States. While some may have thought the election of an African-American president in 2008 heralded a “postracial” America, continued violence and oppression has brought about a rebirth of activism, embodied by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Now that nascent movement is preparing to be part of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Due to open in fall 2016, the NMAAHC will be located at 1400 Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington DC.

Religion, Race, and Humanism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony B. Pinn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Unitarian Universalist ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lorraine Hansberry

This chapter explores the history of humanism within African American communities. It positions humanist thinking and humanism-inspired activism as a significant way in which people of African descent in the United States have addressed issues of racial injustice. Beginning with critiques of theism found within the blues, moving through developments such as the literature produced by Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, and others, to political activists such as W. E. B. DuBois and A. Philip Randolph, to organized humanism in the form of African American involvement in the Unitarian Universalist Association, African Americans for Humanism, and so on, this chapter presents the historical and institutional development of African American humanism.

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