by David Garrow
Smith, Susan Williams. The Book of Jeremiah: The Life and Ministry of Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Pilgrim Press, 2013.
Soetendro, Haryo “Pongky,” Sonny Trisulo, et al. A Gift from Your Family: For Barack, Michelle, Malia and Sasha on the Occasion of Your Visit to Indonesia During November 2010. Saraswati Papers, 2010.
Speller, Julia M. Walkin’ the Talk: Keepin’ the Faith in Africentric Congregations. Pilgrim Press, 2005.
Squires, Gregory D., ed. From Redlining to Reinvestment: Community Responses to Urban Disinvestment. Temple University Press, 1992.
Stanage, Niall. Redemption Song—Barack Obama: From Hope to Reality. Liberties Press, 2009.
Stephens, Robert F. Kenyan Student Airlifts to America, 1959–1961: An Educational Odyssey. Kenway Publications, 2013.
Suskind, Ron. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President. HarperCollins, 2011.
Swarns, Rachel. American Tapestry. Amistad, 2012.
Takara, Kathryn Waddell. Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix—A Critical Biography. Pacific Raven Press, 2012.
Todd, Chuck. The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House. Little, Brown, 2014.
Travis, Dempsey J. An Autobiography of Black Politics. Urban Research Press, 1987.
Travis, Dempsey J. Harold: The People’s Mayor. Urban Research Press, 1989.
Turow, Scott. Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
United States Senate, Committee on Environment and Public Works, Hearings, 2005–2006. (USS, EPW)
United States Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Hearings, 2005–2007. (USS, CFR)
United States Senate, Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Hearings, 2007. (USS, HEL)
United States Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Hearings, 2007. (USS, HSGA)
United States Senate, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Hearings, 2005–2007. (USS, CVA)
Vaillant, George E. Adaptation to Life. Little, Brown, 1977.
Walley, Christine J. Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Wear, Michael. Reclaiming Hope. Thomas Nelson, 2017.
Whelan, Patrick. The Catholic Case for Obama. Catholic Democrats, 2008.
Wolffe, Richard. Renegade: The Making of a President. Crown Publishers, 2009.
Wolffe, Richard. Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House. Crown, 2010.
Wolffe, Richard. The Message: The Reselling of President Obama. Twelve, 2013.
Woodward, Bob. Obama’s Wars. Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Woodward, Bob. The Price of Politics. Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Wright, Jeremiah A. Jr. A Sankofa Moment: The History of Trinity United Church of Christ. Saint Paul Press, 2010.
Yanes, Nicholas A., and Derrais Carter, eds. The Iconic Obama, 2007–2009. McFarland & Co., 2012.
Zeigler, James. Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism. University Press of Mississippi, 2015.
SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Alter, Peter T. “Mexicans and Serbs in Southeast Chicago: Racial Group Formation During the Twentieth Century.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 94 (Winter 2001–02): 403–19.
Bradford, Calvin. “Financing Home Ownership: The Federal Role in Neighborhood Decline.” Urban Affairs Quarterly 14 (March 1979): 313–35.
Bradford, Calvin. “Never Call Retreat: The Fight Against Lending Discrimination.” In Credit by Color: Mortgage Market Discrimination in Chicagoland, 5–18. Chicago Fair Housing Alliance, January 1991.
Bradford, Calvin, and Leonard S. Rubinowitz. “The Urban-Suburban Investment-Disinvestment Process: Consequences for Older Neighborhoods.” The Annals 422 (November 1975): 77–87.
Bradford, Calvin, and Anne B. Shlay. “Assuming a Can Opener: Economic Theory’s Failure to Explain Discrimination in FHA Lending Markets,” Cityscape 2 (February 1996): 77–87.
Carl, Jim. “Harold Washington and Chicago’s Schools: Between Civil Rights and the Decline of the New Deal Consensus, 1955–1987.” History of Education Quarterly 41 (Fall 2001): 311–343.
Carotenuto, Matthew, and Katherne Luongo. “Dala or Diaspora? Obama and the Luo Community of Kenya.” African Affairs 108 (April 2009): 197–219.
Clark, Gordon L. “Corporate Restructuring in the Steel Industry: Adjustment Strategies and Local Labor Relations.” In America’s New Market Geography, edited by George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes, 179–214. Rutgers Center for Urban Policy Research, 1988.
Clark, Gordon L. “Piercing the Corporate Veil: The Closure of Wisconsin Steel in South Chicago.” Regional Studies 24 (October 1990): 405–20.
Colman, Jeffrey D., and Michael T. Brody. “Ketchum v. Byrne: The Hard Lessons of Discriminatory Redistricting in Chicago.” Chicago-Kent Law Review 64 (1988): 497–530.
Conroy, John. “Mill Town.” Chicago, November 1976, 164–82; December 1976, 162–63, 210–19, 304; January 1977, 114–25, 189; February 1977, 106–15, 185; March 1977, 114–15, 132–46.
Conroy, John. “Cardinal Sins.” Chicago Reader, 4 June 1987.
Cruz, Wilfredo. “UNO: Organizing at the Grass Roots.” Illinois Issues, April 1988, 18–22.
DeZutter, Hank. “What Makes Obama Run?” Chicago Reader, 8 December 1995, 1, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24.
Draper, Robert. “Barack Obama’s Work in Progress.” GQ, November 2009, 154ff.
Drizin, Steven A., and Beth A. Colgan. “Let the Cameras Roll: Mandatory Videotaping of Interrogations Is the Solution to Illinois’ Problem of False Confessions.” Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 32 (Winter 2001): 337–424.
Drummond, Tammerlin. “Barack Obama’s Law—Harvard Law Review’s First Black President Plans a Life of Public Service.” Los Angeles Times, 12 March 1990, E1–2.
Engel, Lawrence J. “The Influence of Saul Alinsky on the Campaign for Human Development.” Theological Studies 59 (December 1998): 636–61.
Gahagan, Stacey Marlise, and Alfred L. Brophy. “Reading Professor Obama: Race and the American Constitutional Tradition.” University of Pittsburgh Law Review 75 (2014): 495–581.
Giloth, Robert, and Kari Moe. “Jobs, Equity, and the Mayoral Administration of Harold Washington in Chicago (1983–87).” Policy Studies Journal 27 (February 1999): 129–46.
Goldberg, Jeffrey. “The Obama Doctrine.” The Atlantic, April 2016, 70–90.
Granfield, Robert, and Thomas Koenig. “From Activism to Pro Bono: The Redirection of Working Class Altruism at Harvard Law School.” Critical Sociology 17 (April 1990): 57–80.
Granfield, Robert, and Thomas Koenig. “Learning Collective Eminence: Harvard Law School and the Social Production of Elite Lawyers.” Sociological Quarterly 33 (Winter 1992): 503–20.
Granfield, Robert, and Thomas Koenig. “The Fate of Elite Idealism: Accommodation and Ideological Work at Harvard Law School.” Social Problems 39 (November 1992): 315–31.
Greeley, Andrew M. “The Fall of an Archdiocese.” Chicago, September 1987, 128–31, 190–92.
Hammack, Phillip L. “The Political Psychology of Personal Narrative: The Case of Barack Obama.” Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 10 (December 2010): 182–206.
Heathcott, Joseph. “Urban Activism in a Downsizing World: Neighborhood Organizing in Postindustrial Chicago.” City & Community 4 (September 2005): 277–94.
Hirsch, Arnold R. “Massive Resistance in the Urban North: Trumbull Park, Chicago, 1953–1966.” Journal of American History 82 (September 1995): 522–50.
Homel, Michael W. “The Lilydale School Campaign of 1936: Direct Action in the Verbal Protest Era.” Journal of Negro History 59 (July 1974): 228–41.
Hopkins, Dwight N. “Race, Religion, and the Race for the White House.” In The Obama Phenomenon, edited by Charles P. Henry et al., 181–99. University of Illinois Press, 2011.
Hunt, D. Bradford. “What Went Wrong with P
ublic Housing in Chicago? A History of the Robert Taylor Homes.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 94 (Spring 2001): 96–123.
Jager, Bernd. “Memories and Myths of Evil: A Reflection on the Fall from Paradise.” Collection du Cirp 1 (2007): 211–230.
Jager, David. “Conversing with My Father.” Collection du Cirp 1 (2007): 12–16.
Joravsky, Ben. “Dumpers Swamp City’s Southeast Side with Noxious, Toxic Waste.” Chicago Reporter, August 1983, 1–5.
Kelleher, Keith. “ACORN Organizing & Chicago Homecare Workers.” Labor Research Review 8 (April 1986): 33–45.
Kelleher, Keith. “Growth of a Modern Union Local: A People’s History of SEIU Local 880.” Just Labour 12 (Spring 2008): 1–15.
Kelly, James G. “Contexts and Community Leadership: Inquiry as an Ecological Expedition.” American Psychologist 54 (November 1999): 953–61.
Kelly, James G., L. Sean Azelton, et al. “On Community Leadership: Stories About Collaboration in Action Research.” American Journal of Community Psychology 33 (June 2004): 205–16.
King, Richard H. “Becoming Black, Becoming President.” Patterns of Prejudice 45 (2011): 62–85.
Kloppenberg, James T. “Barack Obama and Progressive Democracy.” In Making the American Century, edited by Bruce J. Schulman, 267–87. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Lawrence, Mike. “Mission Impossible.” Illinois Issues, September 1998, 38–41.
Levinsohn, Florence Hamlish. “The Street Scrapper and the Rhodes Scholar.” Chicago Reader, 8 March 1990.
Lewis, George. “Barack Hussein Obama: The Use of History in the Creation of an ‘American’ President.” Patterns of Prejudice 45 (2011): 43–61.
Loizeau, Pierre-Marie. “Barack Obama’s Autobiography: A Quest for Personal and Political Identity?” In Autobiography as a Writing Strategy in Postcolonial Literature, edited by Benaouda Lebdai, 53–65. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Lynd, Staughton. “The Genesis of the Idea of a Community Right to Industrial Property in Youngstown and Pittsburgh, 1977–1987.” Journal of American History 74 (December 1987): 926–58.
McAdams, Dan P. “What Psychobiographers Might Learn from Personality Psychology.” In Handbook of Psychobiography, edited by William T. Schultz, 64–83. Oxford University Press, 2005.
McKersie, William S. “Fostering Community Participation to Influence Public Policy: Lessons from the Woods Fund of Chicago, 1987–1993.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 26 (March 1997): 11–26.
Mirel, Jeffrey. “School Reform, Chicago Style: Educational Innovation in a Changing Urban Context, 1976–1991.” Urban Education 28 (July 1993): 116–49.
Moore, Donald R. “Voice and Choice in Chicago.” In Choice and Control in American Education, Volume 2, edited by William H. Clune and John F. Witte, 153–98. Falmer Press, 1990.
Mulder, Mark T. “Mobility and the (In)Significance of Place in an Evangelical Church: A Case Study from the South Side of Chicago.” Geographies of Religions and Belief Systems 3 (2009): 16–43.
Mulder, Mark T. “Evangelical Church Polity and the Nuances of White Flight: A Case Study from the Roseland and Englewood Neighborhoods in Chicago.” Journal of Urban History 38 (January 2012): 16–38.
Murphy, John M. “Barack Obama, the Exodus Tradition, and the Joshua Generation.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 97 (November 2011): 387–410.
Obama, Barry. “The Old Man.” Ka Punahou, 15 December 1978, 5, and reprinted in Ka Wai Ola, May 1979, 65.
Obama, Barry. “Winner.” Oahuan 1979, 104.
Obama, Barack. “Breaking the War Mentality.” Sundial: The Weekly Newsmagazine, 10 March 1983, 2–3, 5.
Obama, Barack. “Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City.” Illinois Issues, August–September 1988, 40–42.
[Obama, Barack]. “Tort Law—Prenatal Injuries—Supreme Court of Illinois Refuses to Recognize Cause of Action Brought by Fetus Against Its Mother for Unintentional Infliction of Prenatal Injuries.” Harvard Law Review (January 1990): 823–28.
Obama, Barack. “Review President Explains Affirmative Action Policy.” Harvard Law Record, 16 November 1990, 4, 7.
Obama, Barack. “Help Needed to Change Springfield.” Hyde Park Herald, 19 February 1997, 4, 9.
Obama, Barack. “Rethinking Approach to Juvenile Crime.” Hyde Park Herald, 16 April 1997, 4.
Obama, Barack. “Legislature Squandered Opportunity.” Hyde Park Herald, 18 June 1997, 4, 15.
Obama, Barack. “Illinois Needs a Fairer Tax System.” Hyde Park Herald, 25 February 1998, 4.
Obama, Barack. “Education Most Important Town Hall Issue.” Hyde Park Herald, 29 April 1998, 4.
Obama, Barack. “Progress on Campaign Finance Reform.” Hyde Park Herald, 26 August 1998, 4.
Obama, Barack. “Keep Church and State Separate.” Hyde Park Herald, 7 April 1999, 4.
Obama, Barack. “A Life’s Calling to Public Service.” Punahou Bulletin, Fall 1999, 28–29.
Obama, Barack. “Why Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is Important to Me.” Chicago Defender, 15 January 2000, 18.
Obama, Barack. “State-Wide Meetings Focus on Uninsured.” Hyde Park Herald, 2 October 2002, 4.
Obama, Barack. “Weighing the Costs of Waging War in Iraq.” Hyde Park Herald, 30 October 2002, 5, 6.
Obama, Barack H. “Terror in the Congo.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 8 June 1960, 8.
Obama, Barak [sic] H. “Problems Facing Our Socialism.” East Africa Journal, July 1965, 26–33.
Peterson, Gayle. “We Are the People: The Fight Against Toxic Waste.” Health & Medicine 2 (Winter 1983–84): 13–22.
Pines, Sharon. “Public Housing Residents Fight for Their Health.” The Neighborhood Works, March 1985, 14–17.
“Principales Publications du Professeur Bernd Jager.” Collection du Cirp 1 (2007): 291–301.
Protess, David L. “The Vrdolyak Chronicles.” Chicago Lawyer, June 1988, 1, 16–20.
Purdum, Todd S. “Raising Obama.” Vanity Fair, March 2008, 314ff.
Ranney, David C. “The Closing of Wisconsin Steel.” In Grand Designs: The Impact of Corporate Strategies on Workers, Unions, and Communities, edited by Charles Craypo and Bruce Nissen, 65–91. ILR Press, 1993.
Rawlings, Charles W. “Steel Shutdown in Youngstown: Ecumenical Response to the Opening Hand of Globalization.” Church & Society, January–February 2003, 71–91.
Reiff, Janice L. “Rethinking Pullman: Urban Space and Working-Class Activism,” Social Science History 24 (Spring 2000): 7–32.
Reitzes, Donald C., and Dietrich S. Reitzes. “Alinsky in the 1980s: Two Contemporary Chicago Community Organizations.” Sociological Quarterly 28 (1987): 265–83.
Robinson, Michelle. “Minority and Women Law Professors: A Comparison of Teaching Styles.” BLSA Memo Special Edition, Spring–Fall 1988, 30–33.
Rolling, Ken. “Reflections on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.” In School Reform in Chicago: Lessons on Policy and Practice, edited by Alexander Russo, 23–28. Harvard Education Press, 2004.
Siker, Jeffrey S. “President Obama, the Bible, and Political Rhetoric.” Political Theology 13 (September 2012): 586–609.
Sullivan, Jerry. “Paradise Doomed.” Chicago, August 1985, 142–45, 160–61.
Sullivan, Jerry. “Of Dumps, Chicago Politics & Herons.” Audubon, March 1987, pp. 122–26.
Tandon, S. Darius, L. Sean Azelton, James G. Kelly, and Debra A. Strickland. “Constructing a Tree for Community Leaders: Contexts and Processes in Collaborative Inquiry.” American Journal of Community Psychology 26 (August 1998): 669–96.
Walley, Christine J. “Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter’s Story.” In The Insecure American, edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman, 113–39. University of California Press, 2010.
Wright, Jeremiah A., Jr. “The Significance of Harold Washington.” In The Black Church and the Harold Washington Story, edited by Henry J. Young, 1–9. Wyndham Hall Press, 1988.
Wright, Jeremiah A., Jr. “A
Black Congregation in a White Church: Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago.” In Good News in Growing Churches, edited by Robert L. Burt, 37–63. Pilgrim Press, 1990.
Wright, Jeremiah A., Jr. “An Underground Theology.” In Black Faith and Public Talk: Critical Essays on James H. Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power, edited by Dwight N. Hopkins, 96–102. Baylor University Press, 1991.
Wright, Jeremiah A., Jr. “Doing Black Theology in the Black Church.” In Living Stones in the Household of God, edited by Linda E. Thomas, 13–23. Fortress Press, 2004.
SELECTED MOVIES, VIDEOS, AND TAPE RECORDINGS
An American Boyhood: Barack Obama in Hawaii. Gloria Borland and Kris Anderson, 2008.
Barack Obama, Oral Argument in Baravati v. Josephthal, Lyon & Ross, Inc. #93-3647 (7th Cir.), 7 April 1994. http://web.archive.org/web/20081009195106/. http://www.suntimes.com/images/cds/MP3/obama.mp3.
Barack Obama, “Community Revitalization.” Nebraska Wesleyan University Forum, Lincoln, NE, 9 September 1994.
Barack Obama, remarks at the Cambridge (MA) Public Library. 20 September 1995, Cambridge Municipal Television.
Barack Obama, “Cities and Economic Revitalization.” National Issues Forum, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 8 June 1998.
Barack Obama, “Public Policy in the 21st Century.” Loyola University Chicago, 19 October 1998.
Barack Obama, “Inside Illinois Government.” University of Illinois at Springfield TV, 3 December 1998.
Barack Obama, “Politics, Race and the Common Good.” Black History Month Convocation, Carleton College, MN, 5 February 1999.
Barack Obama, Youth Government Day Remarks. Simon Institute, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 21 October 2000.
Barack Obama, Illinois Center for the Book presentation. Illinois State Library, Springfield, 7 March 2001.
Barack Obama, Check, Please! WTTW, 14 August 2001.
Barack Obama, Commencement Address, North Kenwood/Oakland Charter School, 13 June 2002.
Barack Obama, Commencement Address, Chicago-Kent College of Law, 25 May 2003.
Barack Obama, Commencement Address, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, 10 June 2005.
Barack Obama, Commencement Address, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 2 June 2006.
