{"id":594,"date":"2009-09-02T19:02:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T19:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=594"},"modified":"2013-05-13T03:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T03:37:00","slug":"the-geographical-imagination-of-barack-obama-representing-race-and-space-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"The Geographical Imagination of Barack Obama: Representing Race and Space in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/sgo.0.0049\" target=\"_blank\">The Geographical Imagination of Barack Obama: Representing Race and Space in America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/southeastern_geographer\" target=\"_blank\">Southeastern Geographer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/southeastern_geographer\/toc\/sgo.49.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 49, Number 3<\/a>, Fall 2009<br \/>\npages 221-239<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1549-6929 Print ISSN: 0038-366X<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/sgo.0.0049\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/sgo.0.0049<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert J. Kruse, II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has been noted that the geographical work on race and space has often overlooked the geographies of individual African-Americans. This paper adds to the literature on race and space by focusing upon Barack Obama, the 44<sup>th<\/sup> president of the United States.\u00a0 Unusual in many ways, Obama offers the opportunity to combine two types of analysis in this paper. First, his memoir, <em>Dreams From My Father<\/em>, is treated as a geographical text through which we may gain insight into his geographical imagination. Second, <strong>this paper discusses the spatialization of racial identities, particularly whiteness, that have informed the public&#8217;s impressions of Obama.\u00a0 Together, these discussions may help us to understand the point at which Barack Obama&#8217;s personal geographies intersect with larger racialized landscapes that show increasing hybridity and permeability.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Geographical Imagination of Barack Obama: Representing Race and Space in America Southeastern Geographer Volume 49, Number 3, Fall 2009 pages 221-239 E-ISSN: 1549-6929 Print ISSN: 0038-366X DOI: 10.1353\/sgo.0.0049 Robert J. Kruse, II It has been noted that the geographical work on race and space has often overlooked the geographies of individual African-Americans. This paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,20],"tags":[14672,230,14671,3417],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ii","tag-robert-j-kruse","tag-robert-j-kruse-ii","tag-southeastern-geographer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}