Abstract

...Bertram Ashe provides a rubric for understanding and contextualizing complex racial identity formations in the postsoul era, and instructs us to move beyond the simple analyses of Obama's sense of racial self to see how the president's narration of his life story exemplifies how many of his generation experience and (re)define race.

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2010

Publisher Statement

Copyright © 2010, State University of New York Press. This chapter first appeared in The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign.

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