Dirt off his shoulders: Barack Obama and the question of race - The National Newspaper
Some thoughts and insight into David Remnick's new Obama bio, "The Bridge." The author here also spent time in Hawaii as an African- American in Hawaii, and thus adds interesting points about what forces were likely at work in young Obama's head when he was crafting his identity, as he was to a large degree isolated from the racial overtones at play for his future wife in Princeton, for instance.
Worth a read. http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100416/REVIEW/704159980