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(E)raced Men: Complicity and Responsibility in the Rhetorics of Barack Obama
- Rhetoric & Public Affairs
- Michigan State University Press
- Volume 14, Number 4, Winter 2011
- pp. 673-692
- 10.1353/rap.2011.0037
- Article
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Abstract
The dynamic tensions that mark contemporary discussions of race gravitate persistently between historical realities and symbolic fictions. Nowhere is this tension more powerfully and provocatively revealed and concealed than in the rhetoric of Barack Obama. Our essay interrogates this simultaneity by juxtaposing rhetorics of race and responsibility in two of Obama's speeches: his June 15, 2008, Father's Day speech before the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, Illinois, and his Remarks to the NAACP Centennial Convention on July 17, 2009.
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