Forming and Performing Racial Identity
by
Nikki Khanna, University of Vermont, author of Biracial in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Elected in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first African American president of the United States. Though recognized as the son of a white Kansas-born mother and a black Kenyan father, the media and public have nonetheless pigeonholed him as black, and he too self-identifies as such. Obama’s...