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" Neo-race realities in the Obama era / "
edited by Heather E. Harris.
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BL
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845818
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Neo-race realities in the Obama era /\ edited by Heather E. Harris.
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Albany :: State University of New York,, [2019]
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1 online resource (xviii, 156 pages) :: illustrations
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1438474164
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1438474156
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9781438474151
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Obama's transformation of American myths / Zoë Hess Carney -- Transformational masculinity in the age of Obama: "roses and thorns" / Shanette M. Harris -- How Obama's hybridity stifled black nationalist rhetorical identity: an ideological analysis on his third space leadership / Omowale T. Elson -- Negotiating Muslim group identity in the Obama era / Nura A. Sediqe -- The end of AIDS? a critical analysis of the national HIV/AIDS strategy / Andrew R. Spieldenner, Tomeka M. Robinson, and Anjuliet G. Woodruffe -- The president is black, y'all: presidential humor, neo-racism, and the social construction of blackness and whiteness / Jenny Ungbha Korn -- L'homme de la creolisation: Obama, neo-racism, and cultural and territorial creolization / Douglas-Wade Brunton.
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"Expanding the discourse about Barack Obama's two terms as President of the United States America, Perspectives of Neo-Race Realities in the Obama Era reflects upon the impact of neo-racism during his tenure. Continually in conversation with Etienne Balibar's conceptualization of neo-racism as being racism without race, the contributors to this volume examine how identities become the target of neo-racist discriminatory practices and policies in the US. Individual chapters attend, specifically, to how President Obama's multiple and intersecting identities, beyond the racial binaries of Black and White, were perceived as well as how his presence impacted certain marginalized groups in our society as a result of his administration's policies. Evidencing the hegemonic complexity of neo-racism in the US, these contributors illustrate how the mythic post-race society that many wished for on election night in 2008 was deferred in order to return to the uncomfortable comfort zone of the way America used to be"--
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Obama, Barack-- Influence.
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Obama, Barack.
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Post-racialism-- United States.
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Racism-- United States.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Post-racialism.
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Race relations.
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Racism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
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United States, Race relations, History, 21st century.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.800973/0905
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E184.A1N368 2019
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Harris, Heather E.
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