American Identity in the Age of Obama (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Barreto, Amílcar Antonio; O'Bryant, Richard L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contributors expertly examine Obama's election and reelection as watershed phenomena that will be exploited by the president's supporters and detractors to engage in different forms of narrating the American national saga. Despite the potential for major changes in rhetorical mythmaking we question whether American society has changed substantively.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317937159
• Artikelnr.: 40023852

Autorenporträt

Amílcar Antonio Barreto is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. He is the author of Nationalism and Its Logical Foundations (2009), Vieques, the Navy, and Puerto Rican Politics (2002), The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico (2001), and Language, Elites and the State (1998). Richard L. O'Bryant is an assistant professor of Political Science and the Director of the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute at Northeastern University. His research interests focus on science and technology policy and politics, urban and regional studies and politics, and urban and community technology. He published a chapter in Yigitcanlar, Velibeyoglu and Baum's anthology, Creative Urban Regions.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Age of Obama and American Identity; Amílcar Antonio
Barreto and Richard L. O'Bryant. 1. Obama and Enduring Notions of American
National Identity; Amílcar Antonio Barreto. 2. Racial Identification in a
Post Obama Era: Multiracialism, Identity Choice and Candidate Evaluation;
Natalie Masuoka. 3. The Son of a Black Man from Kenya and a White Woman
from Kansas: Immigration and Racial Neoliberalism in the Age of Obama;
Josue David Cisneros. 4. Immigrant Resentment and American Identity in the
Twenty-First Century; Deborah J. Schildkraut. 5. Browning our way to
Post-Race: Identity, Identification, and Securitization of Brown; Kumarini
Silva. 6. White Masculinities in the Age of Obama: Rebuilding or
Reloading?; Steven D. Farough. 7. "Exceptionally Distinctive: President
Obama's Complicated Articulation of American Exceptionalism; Joseph M.
Valenzano and Jason A. Edwards. 8. Barack Obama's Foreign Policy
Leadership: Renewing America's Image; Mark A. Menaldo 9. The First Black
President?: Cross-Racial Perceptions of Barack Obama's Race; David Wilson
and Matthew Hunt