Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Barack Obama phenomenon : politics, symbol, and reality / Ama Mazama -- Deracializing Obama : white voters and the 2004 Illinois U.S. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Politics of Discomfort -- One: One Family, Two Centuries -- Two: Twenty-first-Century Faces -- Three: Redefining Relationships -- Four: The Gay-Rights Paradox -- Five: Shrunken Congregations, Soulful Citizens -- Six: The Death of the Reagan Coalition -- Seven: Barack Obama's America.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Teleological discourse -- The pre-presidential discourse of Barack Obama -- The presidential discourse of Barack Obama -- Presidential rhetoric and teleological discourse -- Teleological discourse and the rhetoric of civil rights -- Barack Obama, teleological discourse and the American polity.…”
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“…History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Barack Obama…”
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Table of Contents: “…White -- Parties as a resource for presidential leadership : the case of Barack Obama / John J. Coleman -- Obama, religious politics, and the culture wars / James L. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Barack Obama and the "fierce urgency of now" -- 1. War talk, the death of the social, and disappearing children : a lesson for Obama -- 2. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Through the fog -- My (founding) father's son : race, nation, and the politics of inheritance -- "Mutts like me" : Barack Obama, tragic mulattos, and cool mixed race millennials -- Postracialism reconsidered : class, the Black counterpublic, and the end of Black politics -- The perils of being superwoman : Michelle Obama's public image -- A place called "Obama".…”
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Table of Contents: “…The "chickens are coming home to roost" : Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and the Black church -- "I don't want people to pretend I'm not Black" : Barack Obama and America's racial history -- Epilogue.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- The teaching moment that never was : Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama, and the post-racial dilemma -- "I know what's in his heart" : enlightened exceptionalism and the problem with using Barack Obama as the racial litmus test for Black progress and achievement -- The audacity of Reverend Wright : speaking truth to power in the twenty-first century -- Setting the record straight : why Barack Obama and America cannot afford to ignore a Black agenda -- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps : Barack Obama, the Black poor, and the problems of racial common sense thinking.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Barack Obama, communication, and race -- Describing the study -- Barack Obama as communicator -- Perceptions of Barack Obama's communication style -- Shifts in perception: the campaign versus the presidency -- "Presidential communication" -- Race matters in a "post-racial" society -- The role of race in "post-racial" politics -- Black pride in, and allegiance to, President Obama -- White opposition to President Obama -- Gates/Crowley conflict and the "beer summit" -- The media machine -- Media influences -- The celebrity president -- Critical reflections and concluding thoughts.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Bush / Timothy J Lynch -- Barack Obama / Thomas Carothers.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Barack Obama, bound to the world -- Julie Andrews, music to her ears -- Bill Gates, take me to your reader -- David Mamet, getting an education -- Laura Bush, first librarian -- Ken Burns, archiving America -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, from hoops to ink -- Cokie Roberts, a sense of our future -- Ron Reagan, along party lines -- Garrison Keillor, the Internet is a swamp -- Ralph Nader, rallying readers -- Jamie Lee Curtis, a connection to learning -- Al Gore, the planet in the balance -- Oprah Winfrey, reading for life.…”

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Table of Contents: “…'Post-racial' America? Barack Obama.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Lawson -- Civil rights and the first black president: Barack Obama and the politics of racial equality / Ronald W. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Okamura -- Barack Obama and the South : demography as electoral opportunity / Donald W. …”

Table of Contents: “…Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, and the search for patrimony -- W.E.B. …”

Table of Contents: “…Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, and the search for patrimony -- W.E.B. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Scholarly controversy : the civil religion of Barack Obama.…”
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Table of Contents: “…"My petition" : black youth and the promise of democratic citizenship -- "Gangsta rap made me do it" : Bill Cosby, Don Imus, and black moral panics -- "Baby mama" : black love, black deviance, and the sexual politics of morality -- "Minority report" : Kanye West, Barack Obama, and political alienation (with Jamila Celestine Michener) -- "Fight the power" : from Jena to the White House -- "My president is black" : Barack Obama and the postracial illusion -- Epilogue : "A change is gonna come" : policy and politics.…”

Table of Contents: “…Ford -- Jimmy Carter -- Ronald Reagan -- George Bush -- William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton -- George W. Bush --Barack Obama.…”

Table of Contents: “…The unilateralist turn in U.S. foreign policy -- The international and domestic sources of unilateralism -- Structure and ideology in U.S. foreign policy : Clinton and Bush compared -- The United States and international public goods -- Reconfiguring the terms of U.S. engagement with international institutions -- Barack Obama and the unilateralist temptation.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Bush -- Inheriting a bad hand: Barack Obama -- Conclusion: past and future.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Re-reading America : Barack Obama -- Double consciousness and the master/slave dialectic : W.E.B. …”

Table of Contents: “…Barack Obama's assets and constraints -- Presidential effectiveness when Congress is polarized -- Preventing collapse, stimulating recovery -- Promoting long-term growth, reducing inequality -- The Affordable Care Act: legislative victory -- The Affordable Care Act: implementation nightmare -- Global warming warrior -- Driller in chief -- Deporter in chief? …”
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Table of Contents: “…The politics of domestic policy ; The politics of economic policy ; The politics of national security policy ; Barack Obama : transition to power and the first hundred days.…”

Table of Contents: “…About the Editor -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Obama's Nobel Ancestors: From Bunche to Barack and Beyond / Adekeye Adebajo -- 2 Barack Obama: Between Racial Compatriots and Nobel Ancestors / Ali A. …”
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Table of Contents: “…White racial framing and Barack Obama's first campaign -- "Too black?" or "not black enough?" …”
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Table of Contents: “…African foreign policy in the age of Obama -- pt. 2. Michelle and Barack Obama : race and the first family in the age of Obama -- pt. 3. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Professor Elie Wiesel -- Introduction / by Senators Barack Obama and Sam Brownback -- Preface: On our watch -- Challenges and choices -- Two paths out of apathy -- Sudan's backdrop to genocide -- From the front lines of Darfur -- Citizen v. government: knowing what we are up against -- Activist beginnings and success stories -- The upstanders -- Strategies for effective change -- Stop mass atrocities now: an agenda for change -- Conclusion -- Appendix. …”

Table of Contents: “…., Mel Martinez, and Artur Davis : case studies in racially framed news -- Barack Obama, race-based appeals, and the 2008 presidential election.…”
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Table of Contents: “…PSYCHOLOGY, RELIGION, AND CULURE. Understanding Barack Obama's leadership : gamble of the "rational democrat" / William D. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Henry -- Rights and the first black president : Barack Obama and the politics of racial equality / Ronald W. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Du Bois and Ida Gibbs Hunt -- The practice of hip-to-macy in the age of public diplomacy: Richard Wright's Indonesian travels -- Epilogue: hipster diplomacy's fall and Barack Obama's forms of things unknown.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Bush, national security strategy, pre-emptive self defense, "The Bush Doctrine" -- B. President Barack Obama acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2009, "Just War" - excerpt -- Al Qaeda's seven stages plan -- Chechen separatist note of demands to President Putin, August 30, 2004 -- E. …”
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