{"id":21989,"date":"2012-03-27T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21989"},"modified":"2013-02-08T03:31:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:31:18","slug":"the-obama-effect-multidisciplinary-renderings-of-the-2008-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21989","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-5169-the-obama-effect.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\" target=\"_blank\">SUNY Press<\/a><br \/>\nSeptember 2010<br \/>\n300 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN10: 1-4384-3659-9; ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3659-3<br \/>\neBook SBN10: 1-4384-3661-0; ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3661-6<\/p>\n<p>Edited by:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:hharris@stevenson.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Heather E. Harris<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Business Communication<br \/>\n<em>Stevenson University, Stevenson, Maryland<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:kmoffitt@umbc.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kimberly R. Moffitt<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Maryland, Baltimore County<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comm.umn.edu\/faculty\/profile.php?UID=squir050\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Catherine R. Squires<\/strong><\/a>, John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity, and Equality<br \/>\n<em>University of Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-5169-the-obama-effect.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/images\/Product\/large\/62220_cov.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nTimely, multidisciplinary analysis of Obama\u2019s presidential campaign, its context, and its impact.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>November 4, 2008 ushered in a historic moment: Illinois <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Barack Obama<\/a> was elected the forty-fourth President of the United States of America. In The Obama Effect, editors Heather E. Harris, Kimberly R. Moffitt, and Catherine R. Squires bring together works that place Barack Obama\u2019s candidacy and victory in the context of the American experience with race and the media. Following Obama\u2019s victory, optimists claimed that the campaign signaled the arrival of an era of postracism and postfeminism in the United States. This collection of essays, all presented at a national conference to discuss the meaning and impact of the nomination of the first presidential candidate of African descent, remind the reader that reaching a point in U.S. history where a biracial man could be deemed \u201celectable\u201d is part of a still-ongoing struggle. It resists the temptation to dismiss the uncertainty, hope, and fear that characterized the events and discourse of the two-year primary and general election cycle and brings together multidisciplinary approaches to assessing \u201cthe Obama effect\u201d on public discourse and participation. This volume provides readers with a means for recalling and mapping out the enduring issues that erupted during the campaign\u2014issues that will continue to shape how our society views itself and President Obama in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Effect: Multidisciplinary Renderings of the 2008 Campaign SUNY Press September 2010 300 pages Hardcover ISBN10: 1-4384-3659-9; ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3659-3 eBook SBN10: 1-4384-3661-0; ISBN13: 978-1-4384-3661-6 Edited by: Heather E. Harris, Associate Professor of Business Communication Stevenson University, Stevenson, Maryland Kimberly R. Moffitt, Assistant Professor of American Studies University of Maryland, Baltimore County Catherine R. 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