Mutt like me: Barack Obama and the mixed race experience in historical perspective
Mutt like me: Barack Obama and the mixed race experience in historical perspective
This essay traces the contested meanings throughout history of terminology for multiracial people and the role that this historical legacy of “naming” plays into how President Obama is read as African American, but still asserts a strategic biracial identity through the use of language, symbols, and interactions with the media.
Keywords: Media, mulatto, etymology, ascription, strategic blackness, multigenerational, identity construction, multiracial movement, authenticity
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