{"id":31099,"date":"2013-05-14T21:30:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31099"},"modified":"2013-05-14T21:30:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:30:48","slug":"the-political-psychology-of-personal-narrative-the-case-of-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31099","title":{"rendered":"The Political Psychology of Personal Narrative: The Case of Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1530-2415.2010.01207.x\" target=\"_blank\">The Political Psychology of Personal Narrative: The Case of Barack Obama<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1530-2415\" target=\"_blank\">Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/asap.2010.10.issue-1\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 10, Issue 1<\/a>, December 2010<br \/>\npages 182\u2013206<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1530-2415.2010.01207.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1530-2415.2010.01207.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.ucsc.edu\/faculty\/singleton.php?&amp;singleton=true&amp;cruz_id=hammack\" target=\"_blank\">Phillip L. Hammack<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Santa Cruz<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guided by theories of narrative identity, racial identity development, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paulo_Freire\" target=\"_blank\">Freire&#8217;s<\/a> (1970) notion of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_consciousness\" target=\"_blank\">conscientiza\u00e7\u00e3o<\/a>, this paper presents an interpretive analysis of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=11610\" target=\"_blank\">personal narrative<\/a>. Obama&#8217;s narrative represents a progressive story of self-discovery in which he seeks to develop a configuration of identity (Erikson, 1959; Schachter, 2004) that reconciles his disparate contexts of development and the inherited legacy of racism and colonialism. A major theme of his story centers on his quest to discover an anchor for his identity in some community of shared practice. Ultimately, he settles on a distinctly cosmopolitan identity in which he can foster conversation across axes of difference both within himself and among diverse communities. I discuss the extent to which election of a candidate with this personal narrative of cosmopolitan identity reflects a shifting master narrative of identity politics within the United States, as well as implications for Obama&#8217;s policy platform and governance style.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1530-2415.2010.01207.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Political Psychology of Personal Narrative: The Case of Barack Obama Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 10, Issue 1, December 2010 pages 182\u2013206 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1530-2415.2010.01207.x Phillip L. Hammack, Associate Professor of Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz Guided by theories of narrative identity, racial identity development, and Freire&#8217;s (1970) notion of conscientiza\u00e7\u00e3o, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,125,8,26,394,20],"tags":[3425,14694,14693],"class_list":["post-31099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-analyses-of-social-issues-and-public-policy","tag-phillip-hammack","tag-phillip-l-hammack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31099","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=31099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}