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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Race Will Survive the Obama Phenomenon -- Introduction: Understanding Obama and Ourselves -- PART I: RACE, OBAMA, AND MULTIRACIALITY -- 1. Race and Multiraciality: From Barack Obama to Trayvon Martin -- 2. By Casta, Color Wheel, and Computer Graphics: Visual Representations of Racially Mixed People -- 3. Barack Obama: Embracing Multiplicity-Being a Catalyst for Change -- 4. In Pursuit of Self: The Identity of an American President and Cosmopolitanism -- PART II: OBAMA, BLACKNESS, AND THE "POST-RACIAL IDEA." |
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5. Barack Hussein Obama, or, the Name of the Father6. The End(s) of Difference?: Towards an Understanding of the "Post" in "Post-Racial" -- 7. On the Impossibilities of a Post-Racist America in the Obama Era -- 8. Obama, the Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future -- PART III: RACE, GENDER, AND THE OBAMA PHENOMENON -- 9. From Chattel to First Lady: Black Women Moving from the Margins -- 10. The "Outsider" and the Presidency: Mediated Representations of Race and Gender in the 2008 Presidential Primaries |
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11. Obama's "Unisex" Campaign: Masculinities, Race, and Law12. "Everything His Father Was Not": Fatherhood and Father Figures in Barack Obama's First Term -- PART IV: RACE, POLITICS, AND THE OBAMA PHENOMENON -- 13. Barack Obama's Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention: Trauma, Compromise, Consilience and the (Im)Possibility of Racial Reconciliation -- 14. Barack Obama's White Appeal and the Perverse Racial Politics of the Post-Civil Rights Era -- 15. Barack Obama's (Im)Perfect Union: An Analysis of the Strategic Successes and Failures in His Speech on Race |
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Epilogue: Obama, Race, and the 2012 Presidential ElectionReferences -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z |
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The concept of a more perfect union remains a constant theme in the political rhetoric of Barack Obama. From his now historic race speech to his second victory speech delivered on November 7, 2012, that striving is evident. "Tonight, more than two hundred years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward," stated the forty-fourth president of the United States upon securing a second term in office after a hard fought political contest. Obama borrows this rhetoric from the founding documents of the United States set forth in the U.S. Constitution and in Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address." How naive or realistic is Obama's vision of a more perfect American union that brings together people across racial, class, and political lines? How can this vision of a more inclusive America be realized in a society that remains racist at its core? These essays seek answers to these complicated questions by examining the 2008 and 2012 elections as well as the events of President Obama's first term. Written by preeminent race scholars from multiple disciplines, the volume brings together competing perspectives on race, gender, and the historic significance of Obama's election and reelection. The president heralded in his November, 2012, acceptance speech, "The idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or what you look like ... whether you're black or white, Hispanic or Asian or Native American." These essayists argue the truth of that statement and assess whether America has made any progress toward that vision |
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Obama, Barack -- Influence.
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Obama, Barack. |
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United States -- Race relations -- 21st century.
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United States. |
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Race relations. |
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21st century |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017.
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National characteristics, American -- History -- 21st century.
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Democracy -- United States.
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National characteristics, American. |
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History. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Democracy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Politics and government. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. |
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2000-2099 |
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History.
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Daniel, G. Reginald, 1949-
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Williams, Hettie V.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Race and the Obama phenomenon. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi Jackson, [2014] 9781628460216 (DLC) 2014005431 |
| ISBN |
9781626742024 (epub) |
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1626742022 |
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9781628460223 (ebook) |
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1628460229 |
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9781626740426 (electronic book) |
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1626740429 (electronic book) |
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1628460210 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781628460216 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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