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1 online resource (253 pages) |
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OBAMA AND THE BIRACIAL FACTOR; Contents; About the authors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I; 1. Obama and the biracial factor: an introduction; Roots of racialization, structuralism, and power in the United States; The Iowa primary: toward a new American majority; Bill Clinton, South Carolina, and neoliberal narratives of race; Yes we can: toward a "more perfect" union--New Hampshire and Reverend Wright; What's in a name? Barack Hussein Obama and anti-Muslim discourse; You lie: on "post-race" and mixed race representations; The biracial factor in America. |
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Beyond black and white identity politicsThe battle for a new American majority; 2. Race, multiraciality, and the election of Barack Obama: toward a more perfect union?1; The rule of hypodescent: some theoretical considerations; Black and more than black: toward a more perfect union; Race and whiteness: the politics of inclusion; Black, white, and multiracial: a more perfect union; 3. "A patchwork heritage": multiracial citation in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father; Self-representation; The limits of self-representation; Citing stereotypes; Conclusion. |
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4. Racial revisionism, caste revisited: whiteness, blackness, and Barack ObamaPart II; 5. Obama Mamas and mixed race: hoping for "a more perfect union"; Introduction; Methodology; Findings; Obama as a visible representation of African Americans, people of color, and people of mixed race; Mending social, political, religious, and economic divisions in the U.S.; Easing international political tensions; Mixed race as a metaphor for healing; Conclusions; 6. Is "no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama?"; Commentary on Obama's racial and ethnic identity; Obama's own racial and ethnic claims. |
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Irish America and the importance of O'BamaObama's reception in Ireland; Conclusions; Appendix: Lyrics to 'There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama' by The Corrigan Brothers (with Shay Black); 7. Mixed race kin-aesthetics in the age of Obama; Developing a kin-aesthetic; 8. Mutt like me: Barack Obama and the mixed race experience in historical perspective; Mutt, mongrel, mulatto: the significance of race and etymology; Black and mixed race: Obama's public and private identities; Mixed race identity and the mixed race experience. |
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The contemporary mulatto: multiraciality and the multiracial movementAuthenticity and identity: African America and the fact of blackness; Conclusion: Obama's multiraciality and hybrid blackness; Part III; 9. A different kind of blackness: the question of Obama's blackness and intraracial variation among African Americans; Introduction; Intraracial variation among African Americans; The salience of racial variation in African American lives; Implications; Conclusion; 10. Avoiding race or following the racial scripts? Obama and race in the recessionary period of the colorblind era. |
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Obama's racial identity. |
| Summary |
Obama and the Biracial Factor is the first book to explore the significance of mixed-race identity as a key factor in the election of President Obama and examines the sociological and political relationship between race, power, and public policy in the United States. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Obama, Barack.
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Obama, Barack. |
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Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008.
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Presidents. |
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United States. |
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2008 |
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Racially mixed people -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Racially mixed people. |
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United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
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Race relations. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Jolivétte, Andrew, 1975- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Obama and the biracial factor. Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL, USA : Policy Press, 2012 9781447301011 (OCoLC)759584831 |
| ISBN |
9781447301028 |
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1447301021 |
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1280128623 |
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9781280128622 |
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9781447301011 (hardcover) |
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1447301013 (hardcover) |
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9781447301004 (paperback) |
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1447301005 (paperback) |
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9781447307228 |
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1447307224 |
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