Barack Obama: black in the US, mixed-race in France

September 13th, 2008 by Steve Bowbrick

A short feature from Radio France International’s English service. It went out in August, just after Barack Obama’s nomination. We learn that French people think of Barack Obama (correctly) as mixed-race and not black. But we also learn that as they’ve got to know Obama they’ve started to call him ‘black’ in response to his presentation in the US media (MP3).

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