| About the authors |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Preface |
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Part I The Biracial Factor in America |
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One Obama and the Biracial Factor: an Introduction |
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Two Race, Multiraciality, and the Election of Barack Obama: Toward a More Perfect Union? |
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Three "A Patchwork Heritage": Multiracial Citation in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father |
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61 | (20) |
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Four Racial Revisionism, Caste Revisited: Whiteness, Blackness, and Barack Obama |
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81 | (18) |
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Part II Beyond Black and White Identity Politics |
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Five Obama Mamas and Mixed Race: Hoping For "a More Perfect Union" |
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99 | (14) |
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Six Is "No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama?" |
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113 | (16) |
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Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain |
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Seven Mixed Race Kin-Aesthetics in the Age of Obama |
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129 | (12) |
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Eight Mutt Like Me: Barack Obama and the Mixed Race Experience in Historical Perspective |
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141 | (28) |
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Part III The Battle for a New American Majority |
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Nine A Different Kind of Blackness: The Question of Obama's Blackness and Intraracial Variation Among African Americans |
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169 | (22) |
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Ten Avoiding Race or Following the Racial Scripts? Obama and Race in the Recessionary Part of the Colorblind Era |
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191 | (14) |
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Eleven Barack Obama and the Rise to Power: Emmett Till Revisited |
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