Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The 2008 election of Barack Obama as America's first African American president was popularly held to represent a fulfilment of Martin Luther King's Dream and led to speculation about the implications of an Obama victory for a post racial America.This thesis argues that race was a recurring theme of Obama's election campaign, and that his rhetoric referred frequently to America's history of racial inequality.It explores how Obama constructed a racial identity that connected him to the African American struggle for civil rights and which placed him within a national progress narrative, and it argues that an important feature of Obama's campaign was the articulation of a rhetoric of redemption.
Author: Christopher Marshall
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2775152258