Dreams from My Father

From reading Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama, it's clear that the absence of his father left a vacuum in his life with all the unresolved attachment/separation issues that that usually...

The main characters in Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama include Barack Obama himself, his mother Ann Dunham, his father Barack Obama Sr., and his grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. The...

Obama struggled to find a coherent identity that would incorporate both the black and white cultures that were part of his "self." In the quote, he is talking about the language he used to relate to...

In Dreams from My Father, Obama becomes aware of racism through personal experiences and historical context. His resistance to racism is evident in his determination to rise above prejudice, engage...

In Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama faced childhood difficulties and social challenges, including coping with his biracial identity and feeling out of place in various communities. He struggled...

Questions: 1. How do Obama’s college friends differ in their attitudes toward race? 2. How do Obama and his friends differ in their attitudes toward race? 3. What factors, other than racial identity,...

The community organizing element in President Obama's life can be seen in a couple of ways as presented in the memoir.  To a certain extent, the memoir presents the need to community organize...

With this memoir, a young man of mixed race explores his ties not only with the black community of his native land, the United States, but also to his black roots and his extended family in Kenya....

In Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama's thesis revolves around identity and belonging. He explores his multicultural heritage and the complexities of race, using personal anecdotes from his life in...

The full grasp of Obama's identity is the central focus of the time he spent in Kenya.  The comprehension of one's racial and ethnic identity for someone born of heritage that is not the...

In Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama is portrayed as a young man grappling with his identity, heritage, and place in the world. He embarks on a journey of self-discovery, exploring his Kenyan roots...

First, let's look at what Du Bois means when he uses the term "double consciousness." Here's what he writes in The Souls of Black Folk: The Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and...

The most memorable event of Barack Obama’s early life must have been the month he was able to spend with his birth father, Dr. Barack Obama of Kenya. He provides some of the details of this time –...

Here are a list of quotes from the book with a short explanation following each: "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was...

President Obama’s memoir and contemplation of the legacies handed to him by his parents, Dreams from my Father, is very heavily influenced by his experiences with and around education, both as a...