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Race and the Obama phenomenon : the vision of a more perfect multiracial union / edited by G. Reginald Daniel and Hettie V. Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, American--History--21st century.
- National characteristics, American.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- United States--Race relations--21st century.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--2009-.
- Obama, Barack--Influence.
- Obama, Barack.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (465 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi Jackson, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title examines Obama's election and administration, while engaging the voices of some of the most preeminent race scholars writing on the topic. The prepublished essays were selected for their stellar analyses in helping elucidate some critical aspect of the central theme of the book - 'a more perfect union'. Individually, they stand out among the myriad publications on the Obama phenomenon and will remain relevant to any future discussions; combined into an anthology their critical resonance is augmented.
- Contents:
- ""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 Father""""6. 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 Post-ethnic 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 Law""""12. "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 Election""""References""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"";
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-384) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62674-042-9
- OCLC:
- 880960012
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