TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rahming,Melvin B.
TI  - Critical essays on Barack Obama: re-affirming the hope, re-vitalizing the dream
SN  - 9781443836227
AV  - E908 .C758 2012
U1  - 973.932092 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Obama, Barack.
KW  - Obama, Barack
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - 21st Century
KW  - Race relations
KW  - fast
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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