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Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union

G. Reginald Daniel and Hettie V. Williams

Abstract

Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union examines Obama’s election and administration, while engaging the voices of some of the most preeminent race scholars writing on the topic. The prepublished essays were selected for their stellar analyses in helping elucidate some critical aspect of the central theme of the book—“a more perfect union.” Individually, they stand out among the myriad publications on the Obama phenomenon and will remain relevant to any future discussions; combined into an anthology their critical resonance is augmented.87

Keywords: Race, Mixed race, Multiraciality, Obama, Gender

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2014 Print ISBN-13: 9781628460216
Published to University Press of Mississippi: May 2015 DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781628460216.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

G. Reginald Daniel, editor
University of California-Santa Barbara

Hettie V. Williams, editor
Monmouth University

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Part I Race, Obama, and Multiraciality

1. Race and Multiraciality

G. Reginald Daniel

2. By Casta, Color Wheel, and Computer Graphics

Greg Carter

3. Barack Obama

Janet C. Mendoza Stickmon

4. In Pursuit of Self

Hettie V. Williams

Part II Obama, blackness, and the “Post-Racial Idea”

5. Barack Hussein Obama, or, the Name of the Father

Tavia Nyong’o

6. The End(S) of Difference?

Lisa Anderson-Levy

7. On the Impossibilities of a Post-Racist America in the Obama Era

Karanja Keita Carroll

8. Obama, the Instability of Colorlines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future

David A. Hollinger

Part III Race, Gender, and the Obama Phenomenon

9. From Chattel to First Lady

Marsha J. Tyson Darling

10. The “Outsider” and the Presidency

Tessa Ditonto

11. Obama’s “Unisex” Campaign

Frank Rudy Cooper

12. “Everything His Father Was Not”

Heidi Ardizzone

Part IV Race, Politics, and the Obama Phenomenon

13. Barack Obama’s Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention

David A. Frank and Mark Lawrence Mcphail

14. Barack Obama’s White Appeal and the Perverse Racial Politics of the Post–Civil Rights Era

Paul Street

15. Barack Obama’s (Im)Perfect Union

Ebony Utley and Amy L. Heyse

Epilogue

Paul Spickard

End Matter

References

Contributors

Index