Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America (Paperback)

Introduction: A Dream Deferred?; Kevern J. Verney. 1. Barack Obama, First African American President: Continuity or Change; Mark Ledwidge 2. The Obama Dilemma: Confronting Race in the 21^st Century; Carl Pedersen 3. Republican Mavericks: The Anti-Obama Impulse in the 2008 Election; Robert Busby 4. Obama in the Northeast: Race and Electoral Politics in America’s Bluest Region; Kevin J. McMahon 5. Backlash: Racism and the Presidency of Barack Obama; Heidi Beirich and Evelyn Schlatter 6. Barack Obama and the Future of American Racial Politics; Rogers M. Smith and Desmond S. King 7. 'The Final Frontier': Barack Obama and the Vision of a Post-Racial America; Kevern J. Verney 8. Still Mariachi Politics: Latinos and the Obama Administration; Lisa Garcia Bedolla 9. You Say Obama, I say Osama, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: Race and U.S. Foreign Policy; Lee Marsden 10. The Color of Obama’s World: Race and Democracy during the Barack Obama Administration; Michael L. Krenn. Postscript: The 2012 Elections: President Obama’s Establishment; Inderjeet Parmar. The Im/possibility of Barack Hussain Obama; Nirmal Puwar and Sanjay Sharma. Mormonism and the 2012 Presidential Election; Lee Marsden