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- Who Should Be First?: Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Feminists speak out on race and gender in the 2008 Presidential campaign. Who should be first? With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as frontrunners, the 2008 Democratic primary campaign was a watershed moment in United States history. Offering the choice of an African American man or a white woman as the next Democratic candidate for U.S. President, the primary marked an unprecedented moment—but one that painfully echoed previous struggles for progressive change that pitted race and gender against each other. Who Should Be First? collects key feminist voices that challenge the instances of racism and sexism during the presidential campaign season, offer personal reflections on this historic moment, and trace the historic legacy of opposing issues of race and gender that informed debates and media representations of the 2008 Democratic primary. In this collection of writings by leading feminists including Patricia J. Williams, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, Carol Moseley Braun, Maureen Dowd, Katha Pollitt, Pearl Cleage, Robin Morgan, Erica Jong, Mark Anthony Neal, and M. Jacqui Alexander about and during this unprecedented—and to many, unexpected—moment, editors Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Johnnetta Cole deftly balance charged conversations in the first collection on this key moment in contemporary U.S. history.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- 2. Feminists for Clinton
- pp. 13-15
- 5. Duel of Historical Guilts
- pp. 25-27
- 7. Sex Versus Race, Again
- pp. 33-39
- 8. Obama and the Sisters
- pp. 41-43
- 11. What Would Shirley Chisholm Say?
- pp. 59-62
- 13. The Sisterhood Split
- pp. 71-73
- 14. Hillary Versus the Patriarchy
- pp. 75-78
- 15. Hillary Is White
- pp. 79-83
- 16. Your Whiteness Is Showing
- pp. 85-88
- 17. Black and for Hillary
- pp. 89-91
- 18. Why I Support Obama
- pp. 93-95
- 21. Why I’m Supporting Barack Obama
- pp. 107-108
- 23. Yo Momma
- pp. 111-114
- 24. Feminists Must Heal the Wounds of Racism
- pp. 115-117
- 26. Goodbye to All That #2
- pp. 155-162
- 27. Race to the Bottom
- pp. 163-170
- 31. Michelle Obama on My Mind
- pp. 215-229
- 32. Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over Obama
- pp. 233-249
- List of Contributors
- pp. 327-334
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438433738
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
658060891
Pages
357
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No