The Barack Obama Phenomenon: Politics, Symbol, and Reality - Ama Mazama and Molefi Kete Asante
PART ONE: SEE HOW BARACK OBAMA RAN: THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCY
Deracializing Obama: White Voters and the 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Race - David. J. Andersen and Jane Junn
Southern Strategy 2.0: Conservatives, White Voters, and the Election of Barack Obama - Thomas Edge
Turning Out the Center: Racial Politics and African Agency in the Obama Era - Phillip S. Howard
An Immigrant¿s Dream and the Audacity of Hope: The 2004 Convention Addresses of Barack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger - Babak Elahi and Grant Cos Part
PART TWO: THE ICONIC OBAMA: CONTROLLING THE IDENTITY OF A PRESIDENT
Obama's Political Philosophy: Pragmatism, Politics, and the University of Chicago - Bart Schultz
Barack Obama and the Politics of Blackness - Ron Walters
Barack Obama's Faustian Bargain and the Fight for America's Racial Soul - Christopher J. Metzler
PART THREE: THE LESSONS OF THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Facing Barack Hussein Obama: Race, Globalization, and Transnational America - Radhika Parameswaran
The Audacity of Hope - Dewey Clayton
Obama and the White Vote - Todd Donovan Part
PART FOUR: THE LIMITS OF GOVERNANCE IN OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATION
Obama: The New Contours of Power - Jerry Harris and Carl Davidson
Barack Obama and the Dilemma of Power: An Africological Observation - Molefi Kete Asante
Obama's Whiteness - Shawn Michelle Smith
Perceptions of Leadership and the Challenge of Obama's Blackness - Charlton D. McIlwain
Barack Obama and the Politics of Race: The Myth of Postracism in America - Martell Teasley and David Ikard
The Reality of American Life Has Strayed From its Myths: Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope and the Discourse of the American Reclamation Jeremiad - Willie J. Harrell, Jr.
