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- Title
Barack Obama's (Im)Perfect Union: An Analysis of the Strategic Successes and Failures in His Speech on Race.
- Authors
UTLEY, EBONY; HEYSE, AMY L.
- Abstract
In the midst of the Jeremiah Wright controversy, 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama resolved the political-personal crisis surrounding his racial politics by rhetorically presenting himself as a post-racial candidate. After reviewing the strategies of other African American politicians, we posit that Obama's adoption of race-neutral rhetoric in his March 18, 2008, speech, "A More Perfect Union," was a strategic rhetorical choice at the time. However, we also assert that his post-racial politics were compromised by 1) his presentation of a sanitized version of the United States' history of racial injustice and 2) a tendency to reify harmful racist stereotypes.
- Subjects
OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; AMERICAN speeches, addresses, etc.; CONTENT analysis; RACE relations &; politics; RHETORIC &; society; AFRICAN American politicians; CRITICAL analysis; CRISIS rhetoric
- Publication
Western Journal of Black Studies, 2009, Vol 33, Issue 3, p153
- ISSN
0197-4327
- Publication type
Article