• Reprinted with permission from Black Agenda Report

• Veteran radical historian, journalist, and activist Paul Street ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ) is a Left commentator in Iowa City, IA. Street's latest book is Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: A Living Black Chicago History (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). Street is the author of Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004), Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York, NY: Routledge, 2005), and the semi-weekly Empire and Inequality Report.

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• Lisa MacFarquar 2007. "The Conciliator: Where is Barack Obama Coming From?" The New Yorker (May 7, 2007).
• Barrack Obama 2006. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York, NY: Crown, 2006),
• Barack Obama 2007. "Selma Voting Rights Commemoration," Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, Selma, Alabama, March 4, 2007, Tom Shapiro 2004. "Running in Reverse," Center for American Progress Action Fund, October 22, 2004, available online at.
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• Haya Stier and Marta Tienda 2001. The Color of Opportunity: Pathways to Family, Work, and Welfare (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001)
• Paul Street 2002. "A Whole Lott Missing: Rituals of Purification and Deep Racism Denial," Black Commentator (December 22, 2002).
• Paul Street 2004. "Keynote Reflections" (Featured Article), ZNet Magazine (July 29th, 2004).
• Paul Street 2004a. "Skipping Past Structural Racism: Center Trumps Left in Recent PBS Series in Race in America," Black Commentator (April 8, 2004).
• Paul Street 2005. Still Separate, Unequal: Race, Place, Policy and the State of Black Chicago (Chicago, IL: Chicago Urban League, 2005).
• Paul Street 2006. "Obama's Path to Hell," ZNet Sustainers' Commentary (June 18, 2006).
• Paul Street 2007. Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: A Living Black Chicago History (New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007);
• Paul Street 2007a. "The Obama Illusion," Z Magazine (February 2007): 29-33.
• Paul Street 2007b. "Obama's Audacious Deference to Power: A Critical Review of Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope;" Black Agenda Report (January 31, 2007), and ZNet Magazine (January 24, 2007),
• Paul Street 2007c. "The Pale Reflection: Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Meaning of the Black Revolution," ZNet Magazine (March 16 2007), and at Black Agenda Report, March 21, 2007.
• Paul Street 2007d. "Sitting Out the Obama Dance in Iowa City," ZNet (April 28 2007).
• Paul Street 2007 e. " ‘ He's a Mouse:' Russell Simmons' Speaks Some Truth on Obama," Black Agenda Report (May 9, 2007).