Critical essays on Barack Obama re-affirming the hope, re-vitalizing the dream.
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 h...
| Основен автор: | Rahming, Melvin B. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2012.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=524223 |
Съдържание:
- 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.