Philosophy Talk. Bi-racial Identities

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Abstract: Many people identify strongly with the ethnic or racial group to which they belong as Jews, or African-Americans, or Latinos. But to which groups does a person truly belong? President Obama has a white mother from Kansas and an African father from Kenya. Why is he seen as our first African-American President, rather than our forty-fourth white president? How does racial identity work? Is such identification a positive or a negative factor in a person's life? Must we choose among our potential identities? Ken and John discuss racial and bi-racial identity with Michele Elam from Stanford University, author of Mixed Race in the New Millennium (forthcoming from Stanford University Press in 2009) and Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930.

Type of resource	sound recording-nonmusical
Form	podcasts
Extent	1 audio file
Place	KALW (Radio station : San Francisco, Calif.)California
Date created	February 28, 2009
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital
Track configuration	Stereo

philosophytalk.org show page	Title Bi-racial Identities
Finding Aid	Title Philosophy Talk (SC1118)
Show#	188.0
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/sy688rx6009
Location	SC1118
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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