Critical Essays on Barack Obama: Re-affirming the Hope, Re-vitalizing the Dream
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1. Verfasser: Rahming, Melvin B. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2012
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This collection of critical essays explores the life and writings of President Barack Obama. The individual essays, written by a diverse body of scholars, examine specific facets of Obama's career - from personal, communal, national and international reactions to his presidential election; to his controversial contributions to the global conversation about race; his impact on popular culture and race relations; his literary, political and philosophical visions; his attitude toward the America..
Introduction - Moving toward the void : the call of the spirit in Obama's writings and career - Melvin B. Rahming -- - "In no other nation is my story even possible" : collective narrative, self-narrative, and prosthetic memory in Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance - Albert U. Turner, Jr. -- - Barack Obama and the literary dimensions of his writings - James Tar Tsaaior -- - Obama, the Nobel laureate of peace : a portrait of the man and his words - Leah Creque-Harris -- - Obama's autobiographical writing, critical race theory, and the racializing gaze - Ignacio Lopez-Calvo -- - Understanding the young Obama - Kenton Rambsy -- - Daring to hope for a post-racial nation - Stephany R. Spaulding -- - Barack Obama and the new Black father - R. L'Heureux Lewis and Maria S. Johnson -- - Obama's "whiteness" and the politics of recognition : hybridizing white spaces and problematizing Blackness - Emile Lale Demiturk -- - Obama and Africa : "race" and reparations - Michael Janis -- - Revisiting Obama's proposition of change : a structural perspective - Alexander O. Miller -- - Barack Obama's "Blackness" - Brenda Flanagan -- - "I'm Lebron, baby" : perceptions, positions, and projections of the presidential election of Barack Obama on African American male identity - Imani Michelle Scott -- - What does Barack Obama mean? - Cindy Lutenbacher -- - The emperor's new clothes : identifying racism in in Obama's post-racial society - Frederick W. Gooding, Jr. -- - On second class citizenry and the othering of President Barack Obama - Tara Miller -- - Silent signifin' : the collision of fashion and politics on HBCU college campuses in the wake of the 2008 United States presidential election - Alison Ligon
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