{"id":32419,"date":"2013-07-19T02:07:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T02:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32419"},"modified":"2013-07-19T12:44:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T12:44:03","slug":"obama-made-in-kenya-appropriating-the-american-dream-in-kogelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32419","title":{"rendered":"Obama Made in Kenya: Appropriating the American Dream in Kogelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/login?auth=0&amp;type=summary&amp;url=\/journals\/africa_today\/v059\/59.4.van-bemmel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Made in Kenya: Appropriating the American Dream in Kogelo<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/africa_today\" target=\"_blank\">Africa Today<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/africa_today\/toc\/at.59.4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 59, Number 4<\/a>, Summer 2013<br \/>\npages 68-90<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/at.2013.0027\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/at.2013.0027<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblio.ugent.be\/person\/802001064713\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Karin van Bemmel<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In November 2008, millions of Kenyan citizens expressed their happiness about the election of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> as President of the United States. Four years later, people still cheered upon receiving the news of his reelection, but their enthusiasm was nowhere near the euphoria of those earlier days. This article focuses on the consequences of Obama&#8217;s presidency over four years in western Kenya\u2014where Obama&#8217;s father was raised\u2014and argues that the appropriation of Obama serves multiple purposes, including the negotiation of identity, enabling social and political change, facilitating processes of healing and harmony, and creating conditions for peace after the 2007 postelection violence. Looking at the appropriation of Obama in Kenya enables us to study the processes of change, the localization of global flows, and the ongoing dialogical process of identity negotiation within a sociopolitical context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Made in Kenya: Appropriating the American Dream in Kogelo Africa Today Volume 59, Number 4, Summer 2013 pages 68-90 DOI: 10.1353\/at.2013.0027 Karin van Bemmel Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium In November 2008, millions of Kenyan citizens expressed their happiness about the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. Four years later, people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,12,63,8,26,394],"tags":[15243,15242,12821],"class_list":["post-32419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-africa-today","tag-karin-van-bemmel","tag-kenya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32419","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=32419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}