Signifying without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama

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199 INDEX 2008 presidential campaign, 1–2, 5–7, 9–10, 17, 19–23, 28–29, 134–158, 169–171, 186n12, 188n12, 189n18 2008 presidential election, 1–2, 4, 31, 139, 165 affirmative action, 6 African American Review, 183n7 Aguiar, Sarah Appleton, 183n7 Allen, Brook, 45, 183n4 American dream, 17, 35, 82–83 American identity, 116–122, 125–127, 132, 154, 157–158 ancestor, 71, 90–91, 98, 142 Angelou, Maya, 138, 185n5 antiracialist, 14 Appiah, Anthony, 180n14 A.V. Club, The, 188n8 Bacon’s Rebellion, 33–34 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 10, 88, 180n16, 184n7 Baldwin, James, 100–101, 145, 181n18 Beam, Christopher, 22, 182n33 Berlant, Lauren, 80 Berry, Mary Frances, 16, 181n23 Bhabha, Homi, 11 Biden, Joe, 135–136, 160, 185n3 biraciality, 21, 100–101, 163 Birth of a Nation, The (film), 169 black intellectual, 142–143, 146 blackness, 11, 25–27, 29, 31–33, 38–42, 44, 88, 167–169, 172, 176, 185n2; as chosen or disavowed identity, 68–79, 183n1; connection to ancestor, 90, 142; and Obama, 2–3, 5–6, 12–13, 18, 21, 68, 100–101, 177, 182n32; as performed intimacy, 137–154, 162–163; as trope, 17–18, 139–141, 165, 173–174; and violence, 47, 53–54, 64–67, 93, 95 Black Orpheus (film), 131–132 black speech, 12, 18, 20, 28–29, 136, 144, 148–149, 161, 163, 181n18 Bond, Julian, 150, 186n15 Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 179n7 Braun, Carol Moseley, 135 Breitbart, Andrew, 161, 163 Bronson, Po, 29 Brooks, David, 188n17 Brooks-Bertram, Peggy, 186n8 Brown v. The Board of Education, 83 Bush, Barbara, 166, 187n3 Bush, George H. W., 180n12 Bush, George W., 172, 184–185n10 Butler, Judith, 120 Carcasson, Martin, 16 Carey, Mariah, 175 Carter, Jimmy, 161, 187n28 Carter, Philip D., 3, 179n8 Cheng, Anne Anlin, 27, 94–95 Chisholm, Shirley, 135 Chronicle of Higher Education, 189n21 civil rights movement, 4, 11, 150–151, 154, 157 Clinton, Hillary, 5, 137–139, 142, 185n5, 188n16 Clinton, William Jefferson, 15–19, 68, 138–140, 162, 172, 181n25, 182n26; 1997 race initiative (see “One America in the 21st Century”) Coates, Ta-Nehisi Paul, 182n32 Cobb, William Jelani, 182n29 coded racial discourse, 1–2, 5, 11, 18, 23–24, 28, 134, 144, 149, 153 Cohen, Richard, 2, 179n2 Coleman, Arica, 160, 187n26 color blindness, 3, 5–7, 10, 14, 29, 70, 74, 79 82, 179n7 color-line, 4–5, 7, 24 Connerly, Ward, 162 Constitution, U.S., 9, 98–99, 153 Crouch, Stanley, 182n32 Crowley, James, 158–160 Daniels, Lee, 29, 167–169, 188nn4–6, 188n8; Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, 29, 164–169, 172–177, 187nn1–3, 188nn4–10, 189nn19–21 Dark Knight, The (film), 171 Davis, Frank Marshall, 185n1 Declaration of Independence, 152, 154 Defiant Ones, The (film), 170 Dickerson, John, 153, 186n19 diversity, 6, 10, 16–17, 23, 74–75, 81, 84–85 double consciousness, 13, 19, 23, 30, 138 Downs, Jim, 175–176, 189n21 Driving Miss Daisy (film), 170 Du Bois, W.E.B., 4, 5, 13, 23–24, 68, 100–101, 135; The Souls of Black Folk, 4, 13 Dukakis, Michael, 180n12 Duke University, 3 Dunham, Stanley Ann, 67, 100–101, 130–133, 152 Duvall, John N., 59 Dyer, Richard, 172 Dyson, Michael Eric, 19–20, 134, 182nn30–31 Ehrenstein, David, 170–172, 188n15 Ellison, Ralph, 26, 69, 96, 100, 184n3; Invisible Man, 26, 68–70, 72, 74–76, 84, 90–91, 93–94, 96, 102, 184n8 Emancipation Proclamation, 154 Farber, Jim, 180n11 Farrakhan, Louis, 167 Faulkner, William, 102 feminism, 4, 180n9 Ferraro, Geraldine, 5–6, 147, 180n11 Field, Robin E., 123 Ford, Harold Jr., 145, 186n8 Ford, Richard Thompson, 20, 23, 135, 185n2 Foster, Gloria, 188n11 Franklin, John Hope, 15–16, 181n23, 182n27 Freud, Sigmund, 94 Garthwaite, Craig, 188n12 Gates, David, 45, 183n4 Gates, Henry Louis Jr., 20–21 23, 137, 158–161, 168, 180n10, 187n22 Gauthier, Marni, 54 Gibbs, Robert, 161, 187n29 Goldberg, David Theo, 6, 14, 179n5 Golden, Thelma, 182n29 Goldwiz, Steven R., 16, 182n26 Hall, Stuart, 168 Halperin, Mark, 180n13 Hamer, Fannie Lou, 185n2 Harris-Lacewell, Melissa, 69, 183n1 Heilemann, John, 180n13 Hill, Anita, 140 Hirschberg, Lynn, 166, 187n2, 188nn4–5 Hollinger, David, 3, 21 Holloway, Karla, 16, 100 homoerotic/homosexual attraction, 117–120, 123–124 hooks, bell, 108, 110–111 Hopi elders, 179n1 Horne, Lena, 185n2 Horton, Willie, 180n12 Hughes, Langston, 100–101 hybridization/hybridity, 10–11, 180n16 Ifill, Gwen, 153, 182n29, 185n7 interracial relationships, 82–83; friendships, 25–26, 36–37, 43, 48–50, 60–67, 177; political alliances, 134–163; sexual...