{"id":42528,"date":"2015-09-02T22:02:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T22:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42528"},"modified":"2015-09-02T22:02:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T22:02:13","slug":"four-country-newspaper-framing-of-barack-obamas-multiracial-identity-in-the-2008-us-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42528","title":{"rendered":"Four-country newspaper framing of Barack Obama&#8217;s multiracial identity in the 2008 US presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/02560054.2014.955867\" target=\"_blank\">Four-country newspaper framing of Barack Obama&#8217;s multiracial identity in the 2008 US presidential election<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/recq20\" target=\"_blank\">Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/recq20\/35\/3\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 35, Issue 3<\/a>, 2014<br \/>\npages 23-38<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/02560054.2014.955867\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/02560054.2014.955867<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ke.linkedin.com\/pub\/kioko-ireri\/20\/58\/184\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kioko Ireri<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Journalism &amp; Mass Communication<br \/>\n<em>United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> was the first African American presidential nominee for a major party in the history of the US presidential election, his multiracial identity put him under intense scrutiny during the 2008 election \u2013 more than any other previous black aspirants for the White House. Using quantitative content analysis of election stories in the newspapers of four countries (<em>New York Times<\/em> \u2013 US; <em>Times<\/em> \u2013 Britain; <em>China Daily<\/em> \u2013 China and <em>Daily Nation<\/em> \u2013 Kenya), this comparative study examines the prevalence of four racial frames associated with Obama&#8217;s multilayered racial identity: \u2018African American\u2019, \u2018black\u2019, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenya\" target=\"_blank\">Kenyan<\/a> roots\u2019 and \u2018white roots\u2019. In addition, the study investigates the four newspapers\u2019 valence coverage of the four racial frames in relation to Obama&#8217;s candidacy. The findings indicate that \u2018Kenyan roots\u2019 was the racial frame which occurred most frequently, followed by the \u2018black\u2019 frame. Overall, Obama received more positive coverage than negative across the racial frames depicted in the four newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/02560054.2014.955867\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-country newspaper framing of Barack Obama&#8217;s multiracial identity in the 2008 US presidential election Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies Volume 35, Issue 3, 2014 pages 23-38 DOI: 10.1080\/02560054.2014.955867 Kioko Ireri, Assistant Professor of Journalism &amp; Mass Communication United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya Though Barack Obama was the first African American presidential nominee for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,16,63,21,8,10,20],"tags":[20904,221,20903,12821,20902],"class_list":["post-42528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-asia","category-barack-obama","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-usa","tag-african-journalism-studies","tag-china","tag-ecquid-novi-african-journalism-studies","tag-kenya","tag-kioko-ireri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42528","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=42528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42529,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42528\/revisions\/42529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}