Rethinking Obama

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Go, Julian, 1970-
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2011.
• Σειρά: Political power and social theory, v. 22
• Θέματα: Obama, Barack.; Social Science > Discrimination & Race Relations.; Social Science > Ethnic Studies > General.; Social Science > Sociology of Religion.; Social groups.; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects.; Power (Social sciences); Political sociology.

This volume of "Political Power and Social Theory" includes a selection of papers exploring Obama and the Politics of Race & Religion. Chapters examine the complex dynamics of race relations and racial meaning in America under the Obama administration. The "Scholarly Controversies...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction : examining, debating, and ranting about the Obama phenomenon / Louise Seamster, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• The black presidential non-slave : genocide and the present tense of racial slavery / Dylan Rodríguez
• Barack Obama's community organizing as new black politics / Tamara K. Nopper
• The more things change : a Gramscian genealogy of Barack Obama's 'post-racial' politics, 1932-2008 / Cedric de Leon
• The Tea Party in the age of Obama : mainstream conservatism or out-group anxiety? / Matt A. Barreto, Betsy L. Cooper, Benjamin Gonzalez, Christopher S. Parker, Christopher Towler
• The sweet enchantment of color blindness in black face : explaining the 'miracle', debating the politics, and suggesting a way for hope to be 'for real' in America / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Louise Seamster
• Barack Obama and civil religion / Philip S. Gorski
• Civil religion and the politics of belonging / Joseph Gerteis
• Civil religion for a diverse polity / Andrew R. Murphy
• The unfinished covenant / Michael P. Young, Christopher Pieper
• Rejoinder : why civil religion? / Philip S. Gorski.