Obama and Intra-Racial Dynamics

Reporter Angie Chuang takes a peek into the sometimes difficult conversations among communities of color about Barack Obama’s candidacy.

We hyphenated Americans in Second-Generation Nation don’t know how quite to talk about it in polite company (read: when white people are listening). It’s the ugly family secret we’d rather not acknowledge.

Read the full article: Minorities: Their Racial Divide. Published as a commentary in the Oregonian 7/13/08.

Professor Angie Chuang of American University is a former reporter for the Oregonian, and author of the 2007 piece addressing race and Unitarian Universalism (published under different titles, here it is on BeliefNet: UU Find They Are Almost Universally White)

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