{"id":45228,"date":"2016-01-20T22:31:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T22:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45228"},"modified":"2016-03-25T21:31:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T21:31:25","slug":"demonizing-a-president-the-foreignization-of-barack-obama%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45228","title":{"rendered":"Demonizing a President: The “Foreignization” of Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Demonizing a President: The “Foreignization” of Barack Obama<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Praeger<\/a>
\nAugust 2014
\n253 pages
\n6.125 x 9.25
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-3055-6
\neBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3056-3<\/p>\n

Martin A. Parlett<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This groundbreaking political expos\u00e9 scrutinizes the motivations behind the unparalleled attacks on President Barack Obama<\/a> that attempt to undermine his eligibility to lead the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ascendancy of the first African American president was a watershed moment in American history. In response, President Obama’s adversaries have engaged in relentless and systematic mudslinging throughout his campaign and well into his presidency, \u201cothering\u201d him as a foreign and dangerous political figure. Never before has a presidential candidate been so maligned, by so many, in such a variety of ways\u2014and yet won. This provocative study investigates the unrest behind the Obama campaign and election, and the controversial political machine that causes it.<\/p>\n

Martin A. Parlett, himself a former campaigner for Barack Obama, examines the role identity politics and racialization play in the anti-Obama movement, shows how foreignization<\/a> is the latest tool for political dissent, and discusses the ways in which the president has successfully utilized the “outsider” label to his own advantage. The book questions the popular\u2014and often contradictory\u2014notions of Obama as illegitimate, Muslim, Marxist\/Communist, socialist, Kenyan, terrorist, and angry African American. Additionally, chapters trace political marginalization and race throughout history from slavery to Reconstruction<\/a> to the Civil Rights Movement<\/a>, concluding with the culture of distrust in the American political psyche since the events of September 11, 2001<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Features<\/strong><\/p>\n