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- Title
Just Another American Story? The First Black First Family.
- Authors
Collins, Patricia
- Abstract
Analyses of racial equality and gender equity remain muted within contemporary U.S. public policy debates. This context mandates a search for a new language to address social inequalities generally, and racial inequalities in particular. In this regard, the construct of family may be especially useful in that family rhetoric is the symbolic carrier of multiple, often contradictory stories about race, gender, class, sexuality and citizenship. Moreover, because family structures are vital institutional carriers for economic transformations of the new global economy, public policies can be made comprehensible via the rhetoric of family. Using the centrality of family narratives in Barack Obama's campaign and subsequent Presidency as a site for exploring changing conceptions of race, gender, economic security and American national identity, this essay explores how the symbolic and structural dimensions of family have been an important part of the American national story.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EQUALITY; RACE &; society; RACISM; SEXISM; OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; FAMILIES; UNITED States citizenship; PUBLIC policy (Law) -- Social aspects; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-012-9225-5