Intro -- OBAMA AND THE BIRACIAL FACTOR -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I -- 1. Obama and the biracial factor: an introduction -- Roots of racialization, structuralism, and power in the United States -- The Iowa primary: toward a new American majority -- Bill Clinton, South Carolina, and neoliberal narratives of race -- Yes we can: toward a "more perfect" union-New Hampshire and Reverend Wright -- What's in a name? Barack Hussein Obama and anti-Muslim discourse -- You lie: on "post-race" and mixed race representations -- The biracial factor in America -- Beyond black and white identity politics -- The battle for a new American majority -- 2. Race, multiraciality, and the election of Barack Obama: toward a more perfect union?1 -- The rule of hypodescent: some theoretical considerations -- Black and more than black: toward a more perfect union -- Race and whiteness: the politics of inclusion -- Black, white, and multiracial: a more perfect union -- 3. "A patchwork heritage": multiracial citation in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father -- Self-representation -- The limits of self-representation -- Citing stereotypes -- Conclusion -- 4. Racial revisionism, caste revisited: whiteness, blackness, and Barack Obama -- Part II -- 5. Obama Mamas and mixed race: hoping for "a more perfect union" -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Findings -- Obama as a visible representation of African Americans, people of color, and people of mixed race -- Mending social, political, religious, and economic divisions in the U.S. -- Easing international political tensions -- Mixed race as a metaphor for healing -- Conclusions -- 6. Is "no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama?" -- Commentary on Obama's racial and ethnic identity -- Obama's own racial and ethnic claims -- Irish America and the importance of O'Bama -- Obama's reception in Ireland.

Conclusions -- Appendix: Lyrics to 'There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama' by The Corrigan Brothers (with Shay Black) -- 7. Mixed race kin-aesthetics in the age of Obama -- Developing a kin-aesthetic -- 8. Mutt like me: Barack Obama and the mixed race experience in historical perspective -- Mutt, mongrel, mulatto: the significance of race and etymology -- Black and mixed race: Obama's public and private identities -- Mixed race identity and the mixed race experience -- The contemporary mulatto: multiraciality and the multiracial movement -- Authenticity and identity: African America and the fact of blackness -- Conclusion: Obama's multiraciality and hybrid blackness -- Part III -- 9. A different kind of blackness: the question of Obama's blackness and intraracial variation among African Americans -- Introduction -- Intraracial variation among African Americans -- The salience of racial variation in African American lives -- Implications -- Conclusion -- 10. Avoiding race or following the racial scripts? Obama and race in the recessionary period of the colorblind era -- Obama's racial identity -- The colorblind ideology and the "post-racial" era -- Electing a black/multiracial President by (largely) ignoring racial inequality -- How can one explain racial inequality in a President Obama/post-racial era? Culture! -- The Great Recession and race -- No action on racial inequality under Obama -- 11. Barack Obama and the rise to power: Emmett Till revisited -- The state of American politics in the age of Obama: striving for a post-racist vs. "post-racial" society -- On white bodies and critical mixed race pedagogy -- Conclusion and implications -- Index.

Obama and the Biracial Factor is the first book to explore the significance of mixed-race identity as a key factor in the election of President Obama and examines the sociological and political relationship between race, power, and public policy in the United States.

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