Vol 10, No 1 (2011)

Table of Contents

editorial

The Audacity of Hope?
Holly Kent
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articles

Post-race? Nation, inheritance and the contradictory performativity of race in Barack Obama's 'A more perfect union' speech
Bridget Byrne
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'Obama's my dad': Mixed race suspects, political anxiety and the new imperialism
Rachel Gorman
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Michelle Obama: Redefining the (White) House-wife
Khadijah L. White
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essays

"Yes, 'Who' Can?": Who "We" Are In American Liberal Discourse
Maryam El-Shall
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Fighting Words: Obama, Masculinity and the Rhetoric of National Security
John C Landreau
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reviews

Book Review: Shaw, Todd. 2009. Now is the Time! Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism. Durham: Duke University Press.
Stacia Kock
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Review of A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School. Ballantine/One World, 2009. 284 pp.
Janelle Collins
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THE DHAMMA BROTHERS: EAST MEETS WEST in the DEEP SOUTH
Krista E. Hughes
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Fairey's Hope
Rachel Schreiber
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Review of One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love, Rebecca Walker, ed.
Layne Parish Craig
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Review of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Jana Funke
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