Beyond Post-Racial Narratives: Barack Obama and the (Re)shaping of Racial Memory in US Schools and Society

Autor/inn/en	Smith, William L.; Brown, Anthony L.
Titel	Beyond Post-Racial Narratives: Barack Obama and the (Re)shaping of Racial Memory in US Schools and Society
Quelle	In: Race, Ethnicity and Education, 17 (2014) 2, S.153-175 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1361-3324
DOI	10.1080/13613324.2013.869741
Schlagwörter	Presidents; Race; Racial Attitudes; Elections; Mass Media; Discourse Analysis; United States History; Politics; Inferences; News Reporting; Demography + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? President; Präsident; Rasse; Abstammung; Rassenfrage; Election; Wahl; Massenmedien; Diskursanalyse; Politik; Inference; Inferenz; News report; Reportage; Demografie
Abstract	Drawing from the work of "cultural memory" and "racial formation theory" (Omi and Winant 1994) we explore the ascension of Barack Obama as an illustration of how "race" is understood and remembered. This article focuses on the public media discourse of the 2012 Obama re-election to illustrate how the narrative morphed racially from 2008 to 2012. Our findings suggest that the public discourse about ascension and re-election of Barack Obama drew from racial and post-racial narratives to describe his re-election. We contend that attention given to the public construction of Barack Obama in the present is vitally important to how the narrative arc of "race" in the US will be understood in schools and society. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10