Rethinking Obama (Political Power and Social Theory, Vol 22)

"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" section features a debate on Obama and religion in the United States. This volume will be among the first to critically assess the meanings of race and religion in America under the Obama administration, featuring controversial chapters by Phil Gorksi of Yale University and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva of Duke University, among others"--Page 4 of cover Cover 1 Title 5 Copyright 6 Chapter 1 - Introduction: Examining, Debating, and Ranting about the Obama Phenomenon 12 Chapter 2 - The Black Presidential Non-Slave: Genocide and the Present Tense of Racial Slavery 25 Chapter 3 - Barack Obama's Community Organizing as New Black Politics 59 Chapter 4 - The More Things Change: A Gramscian Genealogy of Barack Obama's “Post-Racial” Politics, 1932–2008 82 Chapter 5 - The Tea Party in the Age of Obama: Mainstream Conservatism or Out-Group Anxiety? 112 Chapter 6 - 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 145 Chapter 7 - Barack Obama and Civil Religion 182 Chapter 8 - Civil Religion and the Politics of Belonging 218 Chapter 9 - Civil Religion for a Diverse Polity 227 Chapter 10 - The Unfinished Covenant 239 Chapter - Rejoinder: Why Civil Religion? 247 Includes a selection of papers exploring Obama and the Politics of Race & Religion. This title examines the complex dynamics of race relations and racial meaning in America under the Obama administration. It assesses the meanings of race and religion in America under the Obama administration.