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...course, Gay is already shattering the way scholars look at race and politics in the U.S. “She’s just made us rethink some important idea we’ve thought all along,” says Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African-American Studies Jennifer L. Hochschild.Take the commonly held belief that blacks tend to vote black.“Blacks are the most loyal of all Democratic party constituents,” says Abigail Thernstrom, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy and Research...
...Jennifer Hudson addresses being the third African-American actress to win an Oscar: "This represents change." Press room cheers as Martin Scorsese wins the Best Director Oscar on the monitor behind her for The Departed. That represents change, too. Then the inevitable happens - someone asks the first Britney Spears question of the night. Says Hudson of the pop star's meltdown, "I don't know what's going on and it ain't my business...
...black person in my pre-calculus and calculus classes, so I had to continuously be a good black person in those situations.A more prominent example of a token is Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.) recently lauded as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” I’m sure Senator Biden meant it as a compliment; however, I—along with many other blacks—took it as an insult. Many whites are comfortable with Barack...
...more prominent example of a token is Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.) recently lauded as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” I’m sure Senator Biden meant it as a compliment; however, I—along with many other blacks—took it as an insult. Many whites are comfortable with Barack Obama because they don’t see him in the same way that they still see a majority of black people...
...Republicans also could gain. By comparison to the Democrats in Iowa, the GOP has seemed dispirited. But, says Isaiah McGee, 27, a Republican who is vice-president of the African-American Business Associaiton of Des Moines, "Anytime you see a lack of unity from the other side, there is a benefit for the opposite party...