...Donald E. Pease The essay “States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea Party Movement” analyzes the recent populist conservatism in terms of the disparate fantasies convoking its disparate constituencies. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea...

...Hortense Spillers “Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08” interrogates the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States as a historically ordained event. This essay not only addresses the question of whether we might plausibly read it as the fulfillment of telos but also...

...Donald E. Pease Obama constructs links among signs of history to produce what I would call a punctual presidency, a presidency that is punctual in two senses: Obama works at the level of historical puncta, and he’s just in time. He is a figure who knows how to work with an evental logic of history...

...Richard Purcell If President Barack Obama crystallizes the intersection of postrace and postblack idealism, nothing has exposed the fraught relationship between the two than the shooting death of seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. What Trayvon Martin’s death has brought...

... a political leadership role in the world? The effort of the United States under President Obama to do so must contend with the Bush legacy, consisting of two unwinnable wars, a deep economic crisis that began as a financial crisis, and a politically and culturally divided nation. Haug's essay does not pretend...

... over prevention of human suffering. Republicans craft stories that position them as involuntary victims, even as they act as aggressors. Issues including the racial politics of Barack Obama’s presidency, income inequality, gun control, the “War on Women,” and gay marriage all share similarities...

... forces, for example). In fact, despite Republican rhetorical attempts to portray the president as a “sunshine soldier and summer patriot,”4 the Obama admin- istration has developed the predatory drone program past the limits of the Bush years and thereby widened the scope of the “war on terror...

... . “ Campaign, Not Trump, Says He Believes Obama Was Born in U.S .” NBC News , September 16 . https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-again-refuses-say-whether-obama-was-born-u-s-n649221 . Hennefield Maggie . 2017 . “ Fake News: From Satirical Truthiness to Alternative Facts .” New...

...- tract with America gave way to the Bush Era’s “War on Terror,” as well as its Schmittian-­inspired war on civil society. The hope Obama’s election brought about—the end of partisanship, Americans’ final reckoning with race, the repeal of Bush-­era legislation—has been counterbalanced by, among...

... : University of Minnesota Press . Pease Donald E. 2010a . “ The Crisis of Critique in Postcolonial Modernity .” boundary 2 37 , no. 3 : 179 – 205 . Pease Donald E. 2010b . “ States of Fantasy: Barack Obama versus the Tea Party Movement .” boundary 2 37 , no. 2 : 89 – 105...

... of the distinguish- ing marks of the Obama administration. Every Tuesday, the commander in chief was provided with an inventory. So you cannot really say that he is not directly culpable in the massacres. These days came to be known as Terror Tuesday. Indeed, this is the same Barack Obama who is a Nobel Peace...

...Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Mbu ya Ũrambu: Mbaara ya Cuito Cuanavale Rĩrĩa meetaga Mandela na ndundu yake imaramari Meetaga Verwoerd na Vorster na Botha arũĩri wĩyathi Rĩrĩa mendagĩria abathendi matharaita ma kũratha andũ airũ Kiumba yaheyaga arũĩri wĩyathi matharaita ma kwĩgitĩra Rĩrĩa Obama...

... the election of President Barack Obama. Bradley was not alone in feeling that Obama represented the best of our American experience and political process. His election in 2008 made it even easier to believe in a progressive tradition of American democracy, one that rests on a multiracial ideal...

..., argued that we are in the midst of a neolib- eral revolution, one which is “intended [as] a permanent revolution In the midst of this “revolution,” one in which there was a moment of neoconser- vative onslaught, there emerged the African American figure of President Obama. His historic ascendency...

... being duped by the current orthodoxies and the politics they pursue. Premeditated Terror and Spontaneous Violence That the terror button remains a hot one became clear in the debates between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney in the run-­ up to the 2012 US...

... . “ No Place to Hide: We’re All Suspects in Barack Obama’s America .” Creators . January 21 , 2014 . https://www.creators.com/read/robert-scheer/01/14/no-place-to-hide-were-all-suspects-in-barack-obamas-america . Schemm Paul Bouazza Bouazza Ben . 2014 . “ Tunisia Finally Passes...

... . . . michelle obama’s striking arms raise contro- versy . . . will miley cyrus become the next lindsay lohan or the next michael jackson? . . . 30-foot­ fence around u.s. bor- ders can’t stop illegal aliens; little green man tells “how i got ovah” . . .  i see london...

... and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture (2013) and coeditor of Barack Obama’s Literary Legacy: Read- ings of “Dreams from My Father” (2016) and 21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture...

... gaining. Besides Greenwood’s book, note Anna Everett’s “The Afrogreek- in- Chief: Obama and Our New Media Ecology,” Journal of Visual Culture 8, no. 2 (August 2009): 193–96, in a special volume of brief position- paper responses to Obama as media phenomenon, aptly called The Obama Issue. 190...

... without Apology, ed. Sohnya Sayres, Anders Stephanson, Stanley Aronowitz, and Fredric Jameson (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), 178–209. Connery and Spillers / Introduction 3 ties energies, and the ranks of the powerful—from Barack Obama to Hu...