How the Obama presidency changed the political landscape /

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Other Authors: Walker, Larry J. (Consultant) (Editor), Brooks, F. Erik (Editor), Goings, Ramon B. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One. Race, party affiliation, and the new majority. The body politic : how underrepresented groups can gain political power / Christopher M. Whitt
  • The right to vote, 50 years later : do we still need the 1965 VRA? / Blanche M. Radford-Curry
  • The Latino vote : growth, influence, and how Obama changed the game / Andrew Martinez and Paola Esmieu
  • African Americans, voting, and the Republican party / Donna L. Taylor
  • Barack Obama and the youth vote / Glenn L. Starks
  • New definitions of progressivism in the age of Obama / Linda D. Tomlinson
  • You can't call that mentoring : the fallacy of mentoring in Obama's My brother's keeper / Torie Weiston-Serdan and Arash Daneshzadeh
  • The great divider : Obama's influence on trust in government and racial attitudes / Clarissa Peterson and Emmitt Y. Riley III
  • Part Two. Coalition building, social media, and political messaging. Body cameras and policing : from Ferguson to Baltimore / MaCherie M. Placide
  • President Obama : code-meshing and the power of speech in racial politics / Cassandra Chaney and Kyomi Gregory
  • The duplicitous commodification of the Obama presidency : interrogating Barack Obama's sociopolitical assent and relevance through a conscious hip-hop pedagogy / Ahmad R. Washington, Belema Idoniboye, and Marta N. Mack-Washington
  • Black women as agents of social change during the Obama presidency / Melissa Brown
  • The Black president and the Black body : the intersection of race, class, gender, and violence in America / David O. Fakunle, Calvin J. Smiley, and Marisela B. Gomez
  • HBCUs and activism in the post-Obama era / Felecia Commodore and Robert T. Palmer
  • Standardized testing, teacher accountability, and the school choice debate / Nicole McZeal-Walters
  • Use of deadly force : policing and accountability during the Obama administration / Kimberly J. Rice, Keith Boeckelman, and Casey LaFrance.