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- Title
The Racial Dialectic: President Barack Obama and the White Racial Frame.
- Authors
Wingfield, Adia; Feagin, Joe
- Abstract
This paper introduces the concept of the 'racial dialectic' to describe the ways racial dialogues and policies have transformed in the wake of Barack Obama's historic election to the presidency of the United States of America. Using public statements and behaviors from elected officials, pundits, and Obama himself as case study data, we examine the tension between what we term the hard racial frame, the soft racial frame, and the racial counterframe in the public discourses. We conclude that these competing frames produce a dialectic that has transformed the way racial issues are discussed and interpreted in the wake of Obama's election.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States presidential election, 2008; OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; RACE relations in the United States; RACE awareness; RACE discrimination; DIALECTIC; FRAMES (Social sciences)
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 2, p143
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-012-9223-7