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Marty Favor
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Marty Favor is a Professor of English and African and African American Studies and the former chair of the African American Studies department at Dartmouth. His primary interests are in 20th century African American and American Fiction, cultural studies and theorizing identity.

He is currently working on a project on African American post-modernisms. He is also author of the book, "Authentic Blackness" and, like Sen. Obama, is biracial as well.

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Waiting for the Word of Freedom

Posted June 18, 2009 | 11:08 AM (EST)

I have to love Juneteenth. It's so ironic and subversive. But that raises the question: What is Juneteenth?

Briefly, Juneteenth celebrates African Americans' emancipation from slavery. But this is the weird, ironic and subversive part: The Emancipation Proclamation was issued January 1, 1863 and the Confederacy surrendered...

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Now That the Black Guy is in Charge

Posted November 11, 2008 | 03:23 PM (EST)

Some things are going to change. Most won't change over night or in front of our eyes. "Obama" is not a magical incantation. The presence of Barack Obama and his family in the White House, however, is going to lead us to have to rethink how we view our ideas...

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