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Race and the Obama Phenomenon : The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union /
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 rig...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi Jackson,
[2014]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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."
- 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
- 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
- Epilogue: Obama, Race, and the 2012 Presidential ElectionReferences
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