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Published: 01 January 2016
Figure 6 President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, May 5, 2010 More
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 63–87.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Figure 6 President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, May 5, 2010 ...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 317–350.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Daniel Aldana Cohen In the fall of 2014, Rebuild by Design, an initiative of President Barack Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, convened an international working group of experts to advance a global conversation on resiliency, design, and politics. As part of that process...
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Published: 01 January 2016
Figure 5 “Obama Delivers Remarks on Iran,” Life.com , October 1, 2009, www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/president-barack-obama-speaks-in-the-diplomatic-reception-news-photo/91309616 . Photograph by Gary Fabiano-Pool / Getty Images More
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 23–62.
Published: 01 January 2016
... That successful businessman who doesn’t have to but pays his workers a fair wage … he’s marching. (Applause.) —President Barack Obama My presence is charity. Just who I am. Just like Obama’s is. Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation, and outside of America...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 187–192.
Published: 01 May 2016
... on international models of climate change adaptation. After Sandy, the Rebuild by Design competition became an important source of ideas for these projects, in the United States and throughout the world. An initiative of President Barack Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, the competition attracted...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 47–70.
Published: 01 January 2022
... public consciousness concerning the plight of migrants and to entreat President Barack Obama to end US deportation programs. I trace AMIREDIS's border politics—less a migration effort than a march on the halls of power—through the architecture of their narrative testimony. The narratives follow...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 581–600.
Published: 01 September 2019
...) being force-fed according to Guantánamo’s SOP ( Kapadia 2013 ). In July 2013 the Guardian newspaper released the video, which has over 7 million views on YouTube. By creating this video, Reprieve aimed to create public outrage and pressure President Barack Obama to close the military prison...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 329–350.
Published: 01 May 2018
... for being “not nice,” while describing his telephone conversation with outgoing president Barack Obama as “very, very nice.” But more than other people’s niceness, he is consumed with his own, often describing himself as a “nice person.” In an interview before a Republican Party presidential debate he...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 343–376.
Published: 01 May 2009
... Barack Obama was elected to serve as the forty-fourth president of the United States, NPR interviewed an emotional John Lewis, who tried desper- ately to narrate a form of deliverance that was utterly “unreal . . . unbelievable.” Obama’s election was, in Lewis’s view, “Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 161–183.
Published: 01 January 2015
... rule.” In this context, a better translation might be “essence.” The adjective ‘asly means “original,” “genuine,” “authentic,” “pure,” “true,” etc. 5 This parodies a television interview in which Assala professes her love of US president Barack Obama ( Asalahtv 2009 ). 4 Ironically...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 133–162.
Published: 01 January 2020
... atmospherically mediated. For example, in advance of President Barack Obama’s visit to India in January 2015, a public health expert declared that Obama’s scheduled three-day stay in Delhi would shorten his life by six hours ( McDonnell 2015) . Rumors circulated that Obama, the chief guest of India’s Republic Day...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 453–463.
Published: 01 September 2020
... through antidemocratic means), and Trump himself only entered office through the vagaries of the Electoral College. At the same time, in retrospect it is clear that only Barack Obama’s unique charisma allowed the Democrats to hold the White House. Yet even Obama did not enjoy a clear mandate in his second...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 193–214.
Published: 01 May 2016
... gas price effects” ( Broderick and Anderson 2012: 2). President Barack Obama announced in his 2012 State of the Union speech that the United States has enough natural gas to supply domestic energy needs for one hundred years and support more than six hundred thousand jobs by the end...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 17–26.
Published: 01 January 2017
... during the age of Barack Obama’s presidency. In turn, the Movement for Black Lives, as it is now often named, worked hard to harness their rage as a resource for bending the arc of the universe toward its twenty-first-century vision of racial justice. The confrontation, ready-made...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 143–171.
Published: 01 January 2018
... administration was falling short on meeting this challenge. A DHS report on the eve of the Barack Obama administration identified resilience as one of the top challenges facing the incoming secretary of homeland security ( Kahan, Allen, and George 2009: 1). Obama himself gave substantial emphasis to resilience...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (3 (92)): 491–512.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., with his hoodie becoming a signifier of how ideas of black criminality and deviance circulate with deadly consequences. Even then-President Barack Obama felt compelled to speak about Martin’s death, saying — in what would later be deemed a controversial comment — “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (1 (78)): 113–138.
Published: 01 January 2016
..., and foreign policy: antiwar liberals, but also the liberal hawks that supported the Iraq war, as well as the stalwart conservative backers of the war on terror, even Barack Obama and his neoconservative critics. The number of scholarly, book-length treatments of Niebuhr has accelerated as well ( Harries...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 235–260.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., conservative US pundit Glenn Beck, as part of a broader dig he was trying to make at President Barack Obama: “If you’ve ever been to the South Side of Chicago, I mean, it’s a disaster. All right? It’s like Haiti. . . . I’ve been to Haiti a couple times, and I support some charities there. But Haiti just never...
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 25–50.
Published: 01 January 2014
... in population-dense areas and in 2011 achieved this goal when President Barack Obama signed the Local Community Radio Act into law; as of this writing, up to a couple of thousand new LPFMs can now be built. While the group that is the subject of this article espouses left politics, groups across the political...
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