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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Recommended Citation
Ashe, Bertram D. "Post-Soul President: Dreams from My Father and the Post-Soul Aesthetic." In The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign, edited by Heather E. Harris, Kimberly R. Moffitt, and Catherine R. Squires. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010.