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...Obama's race tugs at them, in the gut. For African-American women, however, Clinton also holds appeal--both as the first potential female President and a longtime activist for equal rights. African-American women will probably make up the largest single voting group in the primary, if you extrapolate from the 2004 primary returns. "This particular election is kind of hardest, if I can put it that way, for the African-American female," says Jennette Williams, 55, a black Georgia public-schools employee who took her grandson Dimitiras, 5, to hear Clinton speak in Columbia. Williams plans to vote...
...Democrats of all races have doubtless thought about the racial implications of this election, on the ground--in the churches and salons and restaurants the candidates visit--very few voters will actually base their decision on race. Indeed, what all candidates are learning--or will soon learn--is that African-American voters can't be neatly classified or treated as a homogeneous voting bloc. Nearly 80% of blacks vote Democratic, but Republican candidates have managed to make intermittent gains over the past decade. Many African-American voters--including Democrats--line up with conservatives on social and cultural issues...
...increasingly polychromatic mix could be an advantage for Obama. As with many social changes, though, the multiracial reality precedes the vocabulary we usually deploy in talking about race. All his life, Obama has faced both the challenges and the advantages of being biracial--the subtle hints in the African-American community that he isn't black enough, the racism in the white community that, thank goodness, he isn't too black. In his autobiography, Dreams from My Father, Obama wrote that "when people who don't know me well, black or white, discover my background ... I see the split-second...
...Harvard admissions numbers are concerned, I make up part of the 10.5 percent of the Class of 2010 that is African-American, but I’d like to set the record straight: I’m French-Canadian, Anglo-Scottish, Cherokee African-American...
...article that highlights the founding of the group. The piece displays a great sense of optimism: In it, the leaders of the organization express their desire to work with the Half-Asian People’s Association, and to welcome other mixed students, not just the those of African-American and Caucasian descent. But when I arrived last fall, ReMixed was nowhere to be seen...