The Obama Effect
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Heather E. Harris is Associate Professor of Business Communication at Stevenson University. Kimberly R. Moffitt is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She is the coeditor (with Regina E. Spellers) of Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/ Body Politics in Africana Communities. Catherine R. Squires is John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity, and Equality at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America, also published by SUNY Press, and African Americans and the Media.
Content
List of Figures
Preface
Desiree Cooper
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Catherine Squires, Heather Harris, and Kimberly Moffitt
Section I: Rhetoric
1. White Males Lose Presidency for First Time: Exposing the Power of Whiteness through Obama's Victory
Dina Gavrilos
2. Hermeneutical Rhetoric and Progressive Change: Barack Obama's American Exceptionalism
James T. Petre
3. Ghosts and Gaps: A Rhetorical Examination of Temporality and Spatial Metaphors in Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union"
Sarah McCaffrey
Section II: New Media
4. Media Politics 2.0: An Obama Effect
Michael Cheney and Crytal Olsen
5. The Webbed Message: Re-Visioning the American Dream
Heather E. Harris
6. The Resonant Message and the Powerful New Media: An Analysis of the Obama Presidential Campaign
Qingwen Dong, Kenneth D. Day, and Raman Deol
7. Beyond the Candidate: Obama, YouTube, and (My) Asian-ness
Konrad Ng
Section III: Identities
8. Post-Soul President: Dreams from My Father and the Post-Soul Aesthetic
Bertram D. Ashe
9. "Let Us Not Falter Before Our Complexity": Barack Obama and the Legacy of Ralph Ellison
M. Cooper Harriss
10. The Obama Effect on American Discourse about Racial Identity: Dreams from My Father (and Mother), Barack Obama's Search for Self
Suzanne W. Jones
11. Our First Unisex President? Obama, Critical Race Theory, and Masculinities Studies
Frank Rudy Cooper
Section IV: Publics
12. Oprah and Obama: Theorizing Celebrity Endorsementin U.S. Politics
Rebecca A. Kuehl
13. The Obama Mass: Barack Obama, Image, and Fear of the Crowd
Robert Spicer
14. Mothers Out to Change U.S. Politics: Obama Mamas Involved and Engaged
Grace J. Yoo, Emily H. Zimmerman, and Katherine Preston
Section V: Representations
15. For the Love of Obama: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Relation
Aimee Carillo Rowe
16. Framing a First Lady: Media Coverage of Michelle Obama's Role in the 2008 Presidential Election
Kimberly R. Moffitt
17. The Feminist (?) Hero versus the Black Messiah: Contesting Gender and Race in the 2008 Democratic Primary
Enid Lynette Logan
Epilogue
Konrad Ng
List of Contributors
Index
