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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Routledge Series on Identity Politics |
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Routledge series on identity politics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; About the Authors and Editors; Introduction: The Age of Obama and American Identity; 1 Obama and Enduring Notions of American National Identity; 2 Racial Identification in a Post-Obama Era: Multiracialism, Identity Choice, and Candidate Evaluation; 3 The Son of a Black Man from Kenya and a White Woman from Kansas: Immigration and Racial Neoliberalism in the Age of Obama; 4 Immigrant Resentment and American Identity in the Twenty-First Century; 5 Browning Our Way to Post-Race: Identity, Identification, and Securitization of Brown |
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6 White Masculinities in the Age of Obama: Rebuilding or Reloading?7 Exceptionally Distinctive: President Obama's Complicated Articulation of American Exceptionalism; 8 Barack Obama's Foreign Policy Leadership: Renewing America's Image; 9 The First Black President?: Cross-Racial Perceptions of Barack Obama's Race; Index |
| Summary |
The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States has opened a new chapter in the country's long and often tortured history of inter-racial and inter-ethnic relations. Many relished in the inauguration of the country's first African American president - an event foreseen by another White House aspirant, Senator Robert Kennedy, four decades earlier. What could have only been categorized as a dream in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education was now a reality. Some dared to contemplate a post-racial America. Still, soon after Obama's election a small but persistent facti |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Bryant, Richard L
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| ISBN |
9781317937159 |
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1317937155 |
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9781317937166 |
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1317937163 |
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