Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Section I Rhetoric
  • 1. White Males Lose Presidency for First Time: Exposing the Power of Whiteness through Obama's Victory / Dina Gavrilos
  • 2. Hermeneutical Rhetoric and Progressive Change: Barack Obama's American Exceptionalism / James T. Petre
  • 3. Ghosts and Gaps: A Rhetorical Examination of Temporality and Spatial Metaphors in Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" / Sarah McCaffrey
  • Section II New Media
  • 4. Media Politics 2.0: An Obama Effect / Crytal Olsen
  • 5. Webbed Message: Re-Visioning the American Dream / Heather E. Harris
  • 6. Resonant Message and the Powerful New Media: An Analysis of the Obama Presidential Campaign / Raman Deol
  • 7. Beyond the Candidate: Obama, YouTube, and (My) Asian-ness / Konrad Ng
  • Section III Identities
  • 8. Post-Soul President: Dreams from My Father and the Post-Soul Aesthetic / Bertram D. Ashe
  • 9. "Let us not Falter Before Our Complexity": Barack Obama and the Legacy of Ralph Ellison / M. Cooper Harriss
  • 10. Obama Effect on American Discourse about Racial Identity: Dreams from My Father (and Mother), Barack Obama's Search for Self / Suzanne W. Jones
  • 11. Our First Unisex President? Obama, Critical Race Theory, and Masculinities Studies / Frank Rudy Cooper
  • Section IV Publics
  • 12. Oprah and Obama: Theorizing Celebrity Endorsement in U.S. Politics / Rebecca A. Kuehl
  • 13. Obama Mass: Barack Obama, Image, and Fear of the Crowd / Robert Spicer
  • 14. Mothers Out to Change U.S. Politics: Obama Mamas Involved and Engaged / Katherine Preston
  • Section V Representations
  • 15. For the Love of Obama: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Relation / Aimee Carillo Rowe
  • 16. Framing a First Lady: Media Coverage of Michelle Obama's Role in the 2008 Presidential Election / Kimberly R. Moffitt.