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Article: Paean of praise smothered by an information overload.(Dispatches)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- May 31, 2009
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BYLINE: Maureen Isaacson
Jabari Asim is not just another Obama opportunist. He comes loaded with credentials. He is scholar-in-Residence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is billed on the internet as "the most influential African-American literary and cultural critic of his generation".
He is also the author of The N Word, Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't and Why, Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Life, Justice and the Law, and Whose Toes Are Those? (for children), and a former editor and contributor to the Washington Post.
His latest publication, What Obama Means... For our Culture, our Politics, Our Future certainly ...