{"id":25596,"date":"2015-12-22T04:29:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25596"},"modified":"2015-12-22T04:29:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:29:47","slug":"john-f-kennedy-barack-obama-and-the-politics-of-ethnic-incorporation-and-avoidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25596","title":{"rendered":"John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-5628-john-f-kennedy-barack-obama-and.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\" target=\"_blank\">SUNY Press<\/a><br \/>\nMarch 2013<br \/>\nHarcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4559-5<br \/>\nElectronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4561-8<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bss.sfsu.edu\/rsmith\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert C. Smith<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Political Science<br \/>\n<em>San Francisco State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-5628-john-f-kennedy-barack-obama-and.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/images\/Product\/large\/62600_cov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Political analysts and journalists often draw analogies between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_F._Kennedy\" target=\"_blank\">John F. Kennedy<\/a>, the first Catholic Irish president, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>, the first African American president. Their election to the nation\u2019s highest office was historic, but for reasons not fully appreciated. In <em>John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance<\/em>, Robert C. Smith provides a fascinating comparison of the challenges both men faced in their bid for the presidency, while at the same time providing comparative histories of the Catholic Irish and African American struggles to overcome racial and religious subordination in America. Kennedy\u2019s Catholicism was an explicit issue in the 1960 election, and once elected he was extremely careful to avoid appearing either \u201ctoo Irish\u201d or \u201ctoo Catholic.\u201d While Obama\u2019s race was not an explicit issue in the 2008 election, he was just as careful to avoid appearing \u201ctoo black.\u201d\u00a0 Paradoxically religion\u2014thanks to rumors and lies about whether Obama was a Muslim\u2014became a substitute for race, allowing Republican strategists to \u201cotherize\u201d Obama by raising the issue of religion in the context of national security and terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance SUNY Press March 2013 Harcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4559-5 Electronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4561-8 Robert C. Smith, Professor of Political Science San Francisco State University Fascinating look at the challenges faced by John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama in their quests to win the presidency. 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