...Tom Hayden Barack Obama says he is neither a “Scoop Jackson Democrat” nor a “Tom Hayden Democrat,” providing the author with a key to understanding the inevitable outsider role of the Left during the Obama era. In this framework, Hayden writes, progressives have to reshape what passes...

... in order to counter perceived “gains”—both material and symbolic—by people of color. It is thus necessary to theorize the kinds of political practices and imaginations wrought by the absence of political loss. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 white grievance political loss democracy Obama era...

... paragraph should read “White grievance in the Obama era was thus not driven primarily by mate- rial losses.” This sentence has been corrected in the online version of the article. doi 10.1215/00382876-4297121 ...

... by the progress from the apartheid and Jim Crow eras that preceded the activ- ism for black and Africana studies in the 1960s and the electoral clout that has helped to create Barack Obama. The racial-sexual constructs put forward in the postmovement era acknowledge an entrenched black...

... merely endured him. Obama’s real political power came not from his comprising center- right policy positions but from his apparent ability to break with the Bush era and thus to alleviate political suffering. This suffering occurs all across the political spectrum. Obama’s power was not only...

...Thomas L. Dumm President Barack Obama seems to have abandoned his left base in order to rule in a bipartisan manner. In this essay, I suggest that his strategy has not been to govern from the center, even if that is the result of his strategy. Instead, by focusing attention on his conflicts...

...Lauren Berlant “Opulism” describes the explosion within popular politics set off by the sensationalism of Barack Obama's ascent to election. Working from Ernesto Laclau's and Slavoj Žižek's antithetical readings of the meaning and value of populism, and working with the legacy of Stuart Hall's...

... as far-right conservative and authoritarian political forces are on the rise throughout the world, United States President Donald Trump has promised to roll back the “liberalism” of Barack Obama by repealing health care laws, building a wall along the Mexican border, and, as a postscript, rolling...

...Gerald Horne This essay seeks to place in context discontent on the left with the Barack Obama administration by focusing on the remarkable fact that for decades the Euro-American majority has voted consistently for the Republican Party, while minorities—particularly the most consistent...

... of the civil rights move- ment and have benefted greatly from his legacy” (xii). Hall’s fnal transition in the introduction to The Mountaintop is as astounding as it is routine, at least in the age of Barack Obama.4 On the one hand, she carefully explicates how her mother’s participation...

.... political life as witnessed most recently by Barack Obama’s April 29, 2008, repudia- tion of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s quite accurate recitation of that history,40 which commences with the genocide of Native Americans, who as members of Native nations remain a formally colonized...

... (Basic Books, 2005), History against Misery (Charles H. Kerr Publishing, 2006), and How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon (Verso, 2008). marlon b. ross teaches in the Department of English and the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University...

... . McGreal Chris . 2001 . “ Africans Back Down at UN Race Talks .” Guardian , September 9 . www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/sep/09/race.chrismcgreal . Richomme Olivier . 2012 . “ The Post-racial Illusion: Racial Politics and Inequality in the Age of Obama .” Revue de recherche en...

... of the political economic problems of the 1970s shaped the environment that produced the financial-­economic crisis of 2007–2008. The Political Economy of Postcrisis Global Capitalism The political debacle of Barack Obama’s administration in the United States reveals the dangers inherent in thinking...

... derisory 1 percent reduction by 2020. In addition, like the European Union’s highly flawed Emissions Trading Scheme, the plan is filled with loopholes: at least 85 percent of the allowances for continuing to pollute will be given away for free rather than auctioned, as Barack Obama had pledged...

... of Obama to comprehend the limitations that America’s Jim Crow era imposed on many of us—the world that existed before Montgomery and Durham and Greensboro, before Albany and Birmingham...

... We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Eman- cipation to Obama. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Warren, Kenneth. 1993. Black and White Strangers: Race and American Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Warren, Kenneth W. 2011. What Was African American...

... Obama’s repeated calls for keeping the military option open, including Hilary Clinton’s response, see the Iran section of “Political Posi- tions of Barack Obama,” httpen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Barack_ Obama#Iran (accessed February 18, 2008). I would like to take...

... slogans like “Facebook Revolution” and “YouTube Revolution” represented social media platforms as liberating and democratizing catalysts of massive rebellions and revolutions. Alec Ross, the former innovation adviser to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, touted Web 2.0 platforms as the “Che Guevara...

... to their overseas counterparts. In every sphere of foreign policy and despite the more recent efforts of the Barack Obama administration to undo some of the damage, the George W. Bush administration’s sorry...