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Obama to bounce back at mid terms
14 July 2010
SBS World News
The BP oil spill has been enormously damaging to US President Barack Obama but how seriously has it affected the Democrat's chances at the mid term elections in November? In this interview, Director of the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Professor Kevin Gaines, says he expects the Obama administration to survive. Watch Online
Race relations in Obama's America
14 July 2010
SBS World View
Prize-winning author and professor Kevin Gaines, from the University of Michigan's Centre for Afro-American and African Studies, is asked what he feels the first year and a half of Barack Obama's presidency has meant to race relations in America. Listen Online
Obama: The exception to prove the rule?
14 July 2010
Despite claims to the contrary, Barack Obama's presidency does not herald a post-racial America or a new black politics, according to US Studies Centre visitor, African-American cultural expert, Professor Kevin Gaines. Gaines is the Director of the Center for Afro-American and African Studies, and Professor of History at the University of Michigan and in this interview he discusses the topic of Barack Obama and African American politics. Watch Online
Barack Obama: hope or disappointment?
14 July 2010
ABC The World Today
Director of the Centre for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan Kevin Gaines discusses Barack Obama's falling opinion polls and how his election as the country's first black president is not proving to be the turning point on race that so many had hoped for. Professor Gaines says there remains an almost primal fear amongst many Americans about black people in positions of power. Listen Online
Gulf oil spill, the economy and immigration test Obama's presidency
13 July 2010
Sky News
Director of the Centre for Afro-American and African Studies and Professor of History at the University of Michigan Kevin Gaines says the Obama administration faces enormous challenges including job creation in a time of financial crisis, the Gulf oil spill and immigration policy. Watch Online
