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- Title
The Tale of Two Obamas.
- Authors
Goldberg, David
- Abstract
In this paper I trace the tensions between structure and agency, the racial and the postracial, as they intersect and clash in the body of Barack Obama, and the US Presidency more broadly. These tensions are examined in the context of contemporary neoliberal political economy and its hyper-extenuated condition, neo-neoliberalism. Finally, the condition of postraciality is read through a critical analysis of the writings of Shelby Steele on Obama and a conceptualization of Obama the Person and Obama the Phenom.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RACE relations in the United States -- Political aspects; NEOLIBERALISM; OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; POSTRACIALISM
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 2, p201
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-012-9222-8