"At This Defining Moment" : Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race / Enid Lynette Logan.
2011
JK526 2008 .L64 2016
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"At This Defining Moment" : Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race / Enid Lynette Logan.
Author
Logan, Enid Lynette, author.
ISBN
9780814753460
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814752975.001.0001 doi
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JK526 2008 .L64 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
324.9730931
Summary
In January 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States. In the weeks and months following the election, as in those that preceded it, countless social observers from across the ideological spectrum commented upon the cultural, social and political significance of "the Obama phenomenon." In "At this Defining Moment," Enid Logan provides a nuanced analysis framed by innovative theoretical insights to explore how Barack Obama's presidential candidacy both reflected and shaped the dynamics of race in the contemporary United States. Using the 2008 election as a case study of U.S. race relations, and based on a wealth of empirical data that includes an analysis of over 1,500 newspaper articles, blog postings, and other forms of public speech collected over a 3 year period, Logan claims that while race played a central role in the 2008 election, it was in several respects different from the past. Logan ultimately concludes that while the selection of an individual African American man as president does not mean that racism is dead in the contemporary United States, we must also think creatively and expansively about what the election does mean for the nation and for the evolving contours of race in the 21st century.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Post-race American Triumphalism and the Entrenchment of Colorblind Racial Ideology
3 Rooted in the Black Community but Not Limited to It
4 Contesting Gender and Race in the 2008 Democratic Primary
5 The Trope of Race in Obama's America
6 Asian and Latino Voters in the 2008 Election
7 In Defense of the White Nation
8 Racial Politics under the First Black President
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Post-race American Triumphalism and the Entrenchment of Colorblind Racial Ideology
3 Rooted in the Black Community but Not Limited to It
4 Contesting Gender and Race in the 2008 Democratic Primary
5 The Trope of Race in Obama's America
6 Asian and Latino Voters in the 2008 Election
7 In Defense of the White Nation
8 Racial Politics under the First Black President
Notes
References
Index
About the Author