{"id":24356,"date":"2012-07-15T19:26:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T19:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24356"},"modified":"2012-07-15T19:26:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T19:26:17","slug":"destiny%e2%80%99s-child-obama-and-election-%e2%80%9908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24356","title":{"rendered":"Destiny\u2019s Child: Obama and Election \u201908"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/01903659-1597871\" target=\"_blank\">Destiny\u2019s Child: Obama and Election \u201908<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boundary2.dukejournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/boundary2.dukejournals.org\/content\/39\/2.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 39, Number 2<\/a> (Summer 2012)<br \/>\npages 3-32<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/01903659-1597871\" target=\"_blank\">10.1215\/01903659-1597871<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/hortense_spillers\" target=\"_blank\">Hortense Spillers<\/a><\/strong>, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Vanderbilt University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDestiny\u2019s Child: Obama and Election \u201908\u201d interrogates the election of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> to the presidency of the United States as a historically ordained event. This essay not only addresses the question of whether we might plausibly read it as the fulfillment of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telos_(philosophy)\" target=\"_blank\">telos<\/a> but also examines the implications of our having already done so.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/boundary2.dukejournals.org\/content\/39\/2\/3.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destiny\u2019s Child: Obama and Election \u201908 boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture Volume 39, Number 2 (Summer 2012) pages 3-32 DOI: 10.1215\/01903659-1597871 Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English Vanderbilt University \u201cDestiny\u2019s Child: Obama and Election \u201908\u201d interrogates the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,6,6941,26],"tags":[11294,11293,5641],"class_list":["post-24356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-new-media","category-philosophy","category-politics","tag-boundary-2","tag-boundary-2-an-international-journal-of-literature-and-culture","tag-hortense-spillers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}