Format:
1 online resource (253 pages)
ISBN:
9781447301028
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- 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 -- Beyond black and white identity politics -- The 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 -- 4. Racial revisionism, caste revisited: whiteness, blackness, and Barack Obama -- Part 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 -- Irish America and the importance of O'Bama -- Obama's reception in Ireland.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781447301011
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781447301011
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=875588
