Table of Contents
Preface Hettie V. Williams G. Reginald Daniel ix
Acknowledgments xix
Foreword: Race Will Survive the Obama Phenomenon David Roediger xxi
Introduction: Understanding Obama and Ourselves George Lipsitz xxxiii
Part I Race, Obama, and Multiraciality
1 Race and Multiraciality: From Barack Obama to Trayvon Martin G. Reginald Daniel 3
2 By Casta, Color Wheel, and Computer Graphics: Visual Representations of Racially Mixed People Greg Carter 41
3 Barack Obama Embracing Multiplicity-Being a Catalyst for Change Janet C. Mendoza Stickmon 62
4 In Pursuit of Self: The Identity of an American President and Cosmopolitanism Hettie V. Williams 84
Part II Obama, Blackness, and the "Post-Racial Idea"
5 Barack Hussein Obama, or, the Name of the Father Tavia Nyong'o 117
6 The End(s) of Difference?: Towards an Understanding of the "Post" in "Post-Racial" Lisa Anderson-Levy 133
7 On the Impossibilities of a Post-Racist America in the Obama Era Kahanja Keita Carroll 147
8 Obama, the Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Postethnic Future David A. Hollinger 167
Part III Race, Gender, and the Obama Phenomenon
9 From Chattel to First Lady: Black Women Moving from the Margins Marsila J. Tyson Darling 177
10 The "Outsider" and the Presidency: Mediated Representations of Race and Gender in the 2008 Presidential Primaries Tissa Ditonto 201
11 Obama's "Unisex" Campaign: Masculinities, Race, and Law Frank Rudy Cooper 225
12 "Everything His Father Was Not": Fatherhood and Father Figures in Barack Obama's First Term Heidi Ardizzone 244
Part IV Race, Politics, and the Obama Phenomenon
13 Barack Obama's Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention: Trauma, Compromise, Consilience and the (Im)Possibility of Racial Reconciliation David A. Frank Mark Lawrence McPhail 265
14 Barack Obama's White Appeal and the Perverse Racial Politics of the Post-Civil Rights Era Paul Street 287
15 Barack Obama's (Im)Perfect Union: An Analysis of the Strategic Successes and Failures in His Speech on Race Ebony Utley Amy L. Heyse 311
Epilogue: Obama, Race, and the 2012 Presidential Election Paul Spickard 329
References 339
Contributors 385
Index 391