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Published: 19 July 2012
DOI: 10.1215/9780822391869-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9186-9
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 10 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374084-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7408-4
... look at Obama’s speeches and writings, showing how his attunement to race is diminished by a logic of national exceptionalism. This logic, chapter 5 argues, cites and interprets black strivings and experiences in ways that tend to buttress triumphant images of America, thereby downplaying how...
Published: 28 February 2020
DOI: 10.1215/9781478009009-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0900-9
Published: 01 January 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478012504-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-1250-4
Published: 17 May 2019
DOI: 10.1215/9781478004561-133
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0456-1
Published: 17 May 2019
DOI: 10.1215/9781478004561-134
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0456-1
Published: 23 July 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021513-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2151-3
Published: 17 May 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822393962-023
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9396-2
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 23 May 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376521-090
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7652-1
Published: 22 May 2012
DOI: 10.1215/9780822395201-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9520-1
Series: The World Readers
Published: 29 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374961-092
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7496-1
Book Chapter

By Anand Pandian
Published: 02 November 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7516-6
... voice dubbing identity Barack Obama Michel Chion ...
Book Chapter

By Anand Pandian
Published: 02 November 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375166-014
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7516-6
... This chapter describes the author’s enlistment as a surrogate voice for Barack Obama in the studio dubbing work for a recent Tamil film, taking up the tenuous relationship between voice and individual identity in cinema. voice dubbing identity Barack Obama Michel Chion ...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 10 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374084-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7408-4
... The introduction to Hope Draped in Black suggests that the postracial rhetoric around Barack Obama’s ascendancy exemplifies well-entrenched attachments to progress and redemption. By providing a reading of McCain’s 2008 concession speech and Obama’s response to the George Zimmerman verdict...
Book Chapter

By Joseph R. Winters
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 10 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374084-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7408-4
... at several examples. I examine, for instance, the anxieties around Obama’s citizenship and supposed links to Islam. I show how anti-Arab and anti-Muslim resentment constitute a “displaced” form of anti-black racism. The language of progress obscures how Obama’s ascendancy required him to disassociate his...
Published: 30 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375616-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7561-6
... This chapter considers the significance and impact of assemblages of diversity on meanings of race and ethnicity in advertising and society. Especially in light of demographic shifts reported in the 2010 U.S. Census, the notion of a “postracial” America underscored by Obama’s presidency...
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Published: 15 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024545-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2454-5
... US administrations (Bush, Obama, Trump), the chapter explores the intertwined invocation of “religion” and, specifically of Islam, with ideas about “gender-based violence” and “terrorism.” The resulting discourse is more than a reflection of contemporary US politics, it is also the historical product...
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Published: 15 August 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2454-5
... as are religious actors. Taking as its primary example actions by three successive US administrations (Bush, Obama, Trump), the chapter explores the intertwined invocation of “religion” and, specifically of Islam, with ideas about “gender-based violence” and “terrorism.” The resulting discourse is more than...