Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance by DIANA MAMEDOV https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp By Barack Obama en-us 2021-04-27 16:56:58 UTC 2025-09-30 10:54:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Bibliography mameddia0001_1 https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp/wish/1594930816 Obama, Barack, et al. Mai dorì„mu: Baraku Obama Jiden = Dreams from My Father: a Story of Race and Inheritance. Daiyamondosha, 2007. ]]> 2021-06-09 05:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp/wish/1594930816 1. Barack Obama's father dies mameddia0001_1 https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp/wish/1594937725 One morning in November, Obama gets a call from his aunt informing him that his father had died. "Aunt Jane. Listen, Barry, your father is dead. He is killed in a car accident. Hello? Can you hear me? I say, your father is dead. Barry, please call your uncle in Boston and tell him. I can't talk now, okay, Barry. I will try to call you again.." Page 5.]]> 2021-06-09 05:33:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp/wish/1594937725 2. Obama's Fathers absence in Obamas life mameddia0001_1 https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp/wish/1597985335 Obama wasn't really upset that his father had died because his father was never really there for him in his life. "He had left Hawaii back in 1963, when I was only two years old, so that as a child I knew him only through stories that my mother and grandparents told." Page 5.]]> 2021-06-10 07:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp/wish/1597985335 3. Obama and his family go through the memories of his father mameddia0001_1 https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp/wish/1597987624 They look at many pictures and talk about Obamas father. Obama doesn't know much about his father so the only things he really knows are the photographs and stories that were told about him.]]> 2021-06-10 07:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp/wish/1597987624 4. Obama finds a photograph of his father in 1959 when he first arrived at the University of Hawaii as the first African student mameddia0001_1 https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp/wish/1597989978 Obama's father was the first African student that went to the University of Hawaii and there he met an American girl which he fell in love with and got married to. That girl became Obama's mother. "The young couple married, and she bore them a son, to whom he bequethed his name." Page 9]]> 2021-06-10 07:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp/wish/1597989978 5. Barack Obama lives through racism mameddia0001_1 https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp/wish/1597994963 Barack Obama lived in a time where racism was a big part of American society and since one of his parents were black and the other one was white, his family in particular experienced racism towards them. "But would they let their daugther marry one", people would say about a black person. "Black men who come around the oil fields once in a while, searching for work as hired hands; black women taking in the white folks laundry or helping white homes" Page 18]]> 2021-06-10 07:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mameddia0001_1/54eqp5grzge06qzp/wish/1597994963