The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign

Index

African-American identity, 131, 133 Afrocentrism, 146–149 Alinsky model, 61 Ambivalent disidentification, 97 American citizenship, 90–91 American Dream myth, Obama’s victory, 5–9 American exceptionalism Bush administration, 18 faces of, 17 hermeneutical rhetoric, 16, 21–23 implications, 29–30 Obama’s, 18, 23–29 and presidential rhetoric, 18–21 American liberalism, 190, 206 American politics, 266, 267 American Studies Association, 267 Amin, Idi, 27 “A More Perfect Union” function of temporality in, 36–41 McPhail and Fletcher respond to, 34–36 Obama’s speech, 24, 25 theoretical framework, 32–34 Angry black woman, 245–246 Antebellum laws, 135 Appiah, Anthony, 143, 144 Asian-American cultural production, 96–97 model minority, 90 supporters, 93 Asian American Politics (Aoki and Takeda), 91 Attachment theory, 53–55 Attitudinal racism, 38 Axelrod, David, 32 Bad Black Man, 154–155 BarackObama.com, 57–59, 66, 68 manifestation of movement, 68 Bazin, Andre, 94 Benjamin, Jessica, 145 Biesecker, Barbara, 205 Biracial ancestry, 131, 133, 134, 143, 144 Biracial identity, 136 rejecting, 140–141 Black community, searching for, 143–146 Black identity, 104 Black man, 137–139 Black nationalism, 142, 146, 148, 226–228 Black Power, 124 Black women stereotypes in mammy, 233–234 Blaxploration, 106–107, 109 Bush, George W., 8, 9 American exceptionalism, 18, 20 principles for administration, 21 Byler, Eric, 96 Camp Obama Alinsky model in, 61 Dean’s campaign, 60 public narrative theory in, 62 training program in, 61 Captioned Media for Obama, 95–96 Index 275 Index Celebrity endorsement, 179–182 functions of, 183 increases awareness/publicity, 183–184 influences undecided and independent voters, 186–187 transfers optimal investment, 184–186 and uniqueness factor, 187–188 theorizing, 180–181 Celebrity politics, 179–182 Civil Rights Act (1964), 123 Civil rights movement, 10, 104 Clinton, Bill, 203, 260, 261 campaign, 254 liberalism, 203 Clinton, Hillary, 183, 197, 198 Color-blind racism, 221, 222 Critical race theory and masculinities bipolarity theory, 154 identity theories Obama’s femininity, 164 shared tenet of, 157–160 tenets of masculinities, 160–163 Cultural feminism, 154 Cultural mulatto, 106, 107 Dean’s campaign, 60 Deification and lionization, 193 Democratic National Convention (DNC), 33, 134, 165, 183, 239 Democratic presidential politics, 190 Democratic primary 2008 Clinton campaign, 254 dog-whistle racism and black anger, 260–262 feminism, 252, 254 middle class feminist movement, 253 oppression sweepstakes, 255 racial conflict, 257 sexism, 259–260 women of color, 253–256 Denial of power of whiteness, 13 Deracialization, 222, 228 Deterritorializing, 229–231 DNC. See Democratic National Convention Dominant culture, 13 Double standards, 17, 29 Dreams from My Father (Obama), 61, 110, 113, 134, 137, 167 black identity, 107 blaxploration gesture in, 108 cultural mulatto, 106 tribes in, 148 Drudge, Matt, 197 Du Bois, W. E. B., 12 Ellis, Trey, 105–106 Ellison, Ralph American civil religion, 126–128 Black Power generation, 123 geography of, 120–123 Enlightened racism, 6 Everything Is Miscellaneous (Weinberger), 52 Feminism, 252, 254 Feng, Peter, 97 Fletcher, William, Jr., 32, 33 respond to “A More Perfect Union,” 34–36 Flying-buttress mentality, 17 Foucault’s interpellation concept, 76 Fu, Warren, 96 Genealogy, 224–226 Gibson, Charlie, 132, 134 Globalization, Obama, 229–230 Going to the Territory (Ellison), 123 Good Black Man, 155, 159, 164–168 Gray, Herman, 6 Greenwald, Glen, 162 Harold Washington’s election, 144 Hermeneutical rhetoric, American exceptionalism and, 16, 21–23 Hierarchization of races, 158 Hing, Bill Ong, 93–94 Hu, Kelly, 97 Hyde, Michael, 21, 22 276 Index Identity theories, 157, 164 Obama’s femininity, 164 shared tenet of, 157–160 tenets of masculinities, 160–163 Ideological assumptions, Obama, 12 Interpellation and constitutive rhetoric, 76–77 effect of, 80, 81 example of, 82 Foucault’s concept, 76 grass-root movement, 77 Obama campaign messages, 79 techniques, 82, 83 use of, 83 Invisible Man (Ellison), 117–120, 123 Jenkins, Henry, 93 Jennifer, Hunter, 175 Jordan, Michael, 6 Kellner, Douglas, 71, 72 Kennedy, Caroline, 199 Kennedy, John F., 19, 27, 28 assassination of, 204–206 legacy, 190, 192, 206 liberalism, 190, 204, 206 challenge for, 203 reverberating affect of, 206 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 34, 131, 138 Koh, Harold, 17 Kwon, Yul, 98 La Bamba Obama, 93–94 Laissez-faire domestic urban policy, 91 Lee, Robert, 91 Lee, Taeku, 91, 92 Leff, Michael, 33, 34, 39 Legal discrimination, 36 Leung, Ken, 98 Liberalism Clinton, 203 goal of, 205 Kennedy, 190, 204, 206 Obama, 190, 202 Lincoln’s...