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President Obama checks the "Black" box

By Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D. on April 4, 2010 in What The Wild Things Are

This week, the New York Times reported that "It is official: Barack Obama is the nation's first black president." Evidently, President Obama chose to check the "African-American" box when defining his race for the 2010 census. Read More

nice

Submitted by Non-White on April 4, 2010 - 7:58pm.

This was food for thought. Very interesting. Which race am I today? Some of us can choose more than others.

Race

Submitted by Anonymous on April 8, 2010 - 2:45pm.

Can I become a Jew?

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Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D.

Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D., is a clinical and forensic psychologist and co-founder of the Pathways Institute for Impulse Control in San Francisco.

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