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...standard for passing high school. According to Professor Modood’s research, over 40 percent of Pakistani and Bangladeshi youths today still have no educational qualifications. In fact, the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis have some of the lowest educational qualifications among all immigrant groups, even though many African and Caribbean Britons have similar socioeconomic profiles...
...Ironically, the person who mattered most in Obama's life is the one we know the least about-maybe because being partly African in America is still seen as being simply black and color is still a preoccupation above almost all else. There is not enough room in the conversation for the rest of a man's story. (See pictures of eight months of Obama's diplomacy...
...When Ann told her parents about the African student at school, they invited him over for dinner. Her father didn't notice when his daughter reached out to hold the man's hand, according to Obama's book. Her mother thought it best not to cause a scene. As Obama would write, "My mother was that girl with the movie of beautiful black people playing in her head." (See behind-the-scenes pictures of Obama on Inauguration...
...already done things most women of her generation had not: she had married an African, had their baby and gotten divorced. At this juncture, her life could have become narrower-a young, marginalized woman focused on paying the rent and raising a child on her own. She could have filled her son's head with well-founded resentment for his absent father. But that is not what happened...
...channeling his mother. "When I was writing that speech," he told nbc News, "her memory loomed over me. Is this something that she would trust?" When it came to race, Obama told me, "I don't think she was entirely comfortable with the more aggressive or militant approaches to African-American politics." (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama...