The Obama Phenomenon
Title | The Obama Phenomenon PDF eBook |
Author | Charles P. Henry |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 2011-09-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 025203645X |
Barack Obama's campaign and electoral victory demonstrated the dynamic nature of American democracy. This collection shows the impact of the Obama phenomenon on the future of race relations within the United States through readings on Barack Obama's campaign as well as the idealism and pragmatism of the Obama administration.
Race and the Obama Phenomenon
Title | Race and the Obama Phenomenon PDF eBook |
Author | G. Reginald Daniel |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | 464 |
Release | 2014-07-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1626742014 |
The concept of a more perfect union remains a constant theme in the political rhetoric of Barack Obama. From his now-historic race speech to his second victory speech delivered on November 7, 2012, that striving is evident. “Tonight, more than two hundred years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward,” stated the forty-fourth president of the United States upon securing a second term in office after a hard-fought political contest. Obama borrows this rhetoric from the founding documents of the United States set forth in the U.S. Constitution and in Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.” How naive or realistic is Obama’s vision of a more perfect American union that brings together people across racial, class, and political lines? How can this vision of a more inclusive America be realized in a society that remains racist at its core? These essays seek answers to these complicated questions by examining the 2008 and 2012 elections as well as the events of President Obama’s first term. Written by preeminent race scholars from multiple disciplines, the volume brings together competing perspectives on race, gender, and the historic significance of Obama’s election and re-election. The president heralded in his November 2012 acceptance speech, “The idea that if you’re willing to work hard, it doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from, or what you look like . . . . whether you’re black or white, Hispanic or Asian or Native American.” These essayists argue the truth of that statement and assess whether America has made any progress toward that vision.
The Obama Phenomenon
Title | The Obama Phenomenon PDF eBook |
Author | Ray A. Coleman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780981991320 |
Working behind the scenes and obtaining knowledge of President Obama's political trail to victory led Coleman to write an insightful memoir that leads readers through a parallel journey of an electoral victory and spiritual confirmation.
Politics and Emotions
Title | Politics and Emotions PDF eBook |
Author | Marcos Engelken-Jorge |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 2011-04-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3531932012 |
Mainstream liberal narratives have often depicted politics as a matter of power and competing interests, disregarding emotions or conceiving them as threats to a rational and well-ordered society. In the last decades, however, this viewpoint has been increasingly challenged by a number of scholars researching on the complex and multidimensional role of emotions in politics. This edited collection aims at providing a concise but comprehensive introduction to this area of research. The essays contained in this volume focus on a single case, the Obama phenomenon, illustrating empirically how the variable ‘emotions’ can enrich political analysis. Taken together, the essays reflect the plurality of approaches available to the study of politics and emotions and thus contribute to the cutting-edge debates on this fascinating topic.
The Obama Phenomenon
Title | The Obama Phenomenon PDF eBook |
Author | Femi Ojo-Ade |
Publisher | Africa Research and Publications |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Edited by internationally recognised scholar Femi Ojo-Ade, this volume brings together a mixture of young intellectuals and seasoned scholars from Africa and its diaspora to address various implications of the Obama phenomenon, all from an Afro-oriented perspective. Far from being a neologism coined from what some would dismiss as Obama's political jingoism, The Obama Phenomenon: Change We Can is an affirmation of potential power, a call-out to people of all races and cultures to work together for the just cause of human progress.
How Race Survived US History
Title | How Race Survived US History PDF eBook |
Author | David R. Roediger |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2019-10-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 178873646X |
An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor The Obama era produced countless articles arguing that America’s race problems were over. The election of Donald Trump has proved those hasty pronouncements wrong. Race has always played a central role in US society and culture. Surveying a period from the late seventeenth century—the era in which W.E.B. Du Bois located the emergence of “whiteness”—through the American Revolution and the Civil War to the civil rights movement and the emergence of the American empire, How Race Survived US History reveals how race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. This masterful account shows how race has remained at the heart of American life well into the twenty-first century.
What Obama Means
Title | What Obama Means PDF eBook |
Author | Jabari Asim |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 2009-01-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0061711330 |
A timely and sharp analysis about what the Obama phenomenon means for the future of American politics and society, by the celebrated "Washington Post" columnist.