The Hip Hop Obama Reader

Author : Travis L. Gosa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199341818
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hip Hop & Obama Reader written by Travis L. Gosa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an analysis of hip hop and politics in the Obama era and beyond, with new perspectives on hip hop's role in political mobilization, grassroots organizing, campaign branding, and voter turnout.

Author : Sarah Parvis
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740798421
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barack Obama written by Sarah Parvis and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise biography with candid photos revealing the story behind the history-making American president. Get an inside look at the remarkable forty-fourth president of the United States. The first African American U.S. president and the first politician to apply twenty-first-century technology to an election and the presidency, he brought change to a nation during his eight years in office—and also changed history. From local community reformer to commander-in-chief, Barack Obama has lived the American dream. This is his story in pictures and in words.

Author : Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Publisher : Black Studies and Critical Thinking
ISBN 13 : 9781433111280
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading African American Experiences in the Obama Era written by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and published by Black Studies and Critical Thinking. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What does it mean to be Black in the Obama era? In [this book], young African American scholars and researchers and experienced community activists demonstrate how to encourage dialogue across curricula, disciplines, and communitites with emphases on education, new media, and popular culture"--From publisher description.

Author : Caroline Brewer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781508656425
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barack Obama written by Caroline Brewer and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barack Obama: A Hip Hop Tale of King's Dream Come True is a humorous, satirized and fictionalized account of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Its swift-moving rhymes, rhythm and drama entertain while educating children about one of the most important events in world history. The brightly-illustrated 32-page book ultimately reveals President Obama's powerful connection to the enduring legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement he so honorably and courageously led.

Author : Juan M. Floyd-Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135004105X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in the Age of Obama written by Juan M. Floyd-Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama's years in the White House. Addressing issues ranging from identity politics, immigration, income inequality, Islamophobia and international affairs, Religion in the Age of Obama explores the religious and moral underpinnings of the Obama presidency and subsequent debates regarding his tenure in the White House. It provides an analysis of Obama's beliefs and their relationship to his vision of public life, as well as the way in which the general ethos of religion and non-religion has shifted over the past decade in the United States under his presidency. Topics include how Obama has employed religious rhetoric in response to both international and domestic events, his attempt to inhabit a kind of Blackness that comforts and reassures rather than challenges White America, the limits of Christian hospitality within U.S. immigration policy and the racialization of Islam in the U.S. national imagination. Religion in the Age of Obama shows that the years of the Obama presidency served as a watershed moment of significant reorganization of the role of religion in national public life. It is a timely contribution to debates on religion, race and public life in the United States.

Author : Dana Gorzelany-Mostak
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472903500
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tracks on the Trail written by Dana Gorzelany-Mostak and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Bill Clinton playing his saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show to Barack Obama referencing Jay-Z’s song “Dirt Off Your Shoulder,” politicians have used music not only to construct their personal presidential identities but to create the broader identity of the American presidency. Through music, candidates can appear relatable, show cultural competency, communicate values and ideas, or connect with a specific constituency. On a less explicit level, episodes such as Clinton’s sax-playing and Obama’s shoulder brush operate as aural and visual articulations of race and racial identity. But why do candidates choose to engage with race in this manner? And why do supporters and detractors on YouTube and the Twittersphere similarly engage with race when they create music videos or remixes in homage to their favorite candidates? With Barack Obama, Ben Carson, Kamala Harris, and Donald Trump as case studies, Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency sheds light on the factors that motivate candidates and constituents alike to articulate race through music on the campaign trail and shows how the racialization of sound intersects with other markers of difference and ultimately shapes the public discourse surrounding candidates, popular music, and the meanings attached to race in the 21st century. Gorzelany-Mostak explores musical engagement broadly, including official music in the form of candidate playlists and launch event setlists, as well as unofficial music in the form of newly composed campaign songs, mashups, parodies, and remixes.

Author : Nick J. Sciullo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communicating Hip-Hop written by Nick J. Sciullo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful analysis of the broad impact of hip-hop on popular culture examines the circulation of hip-hop through media, academia, business, law, and consumer culture to explain how hip-hop influences thought and action through our societal institutions. How has hip-hop influenced our culture beyond the most obvious ways (music and fashion)? Examples of the substantial power of hip-hop culture include influence on consumer buying habits—for example, Dr. Dre's Beats headphones; politics, seen in Barack Obama's election as the first "hip-hop president" and increased black political participation; and social movements such as various stop-the-violence movements and mobilization against police brutality and racism. In Communicating Hip-Hop: How Hip-Hop Culture Shapes Popular Culture, author Nick Sciullo considers hip-hop's role in shaping a number of different aspects of modern culture ranging from law to communication and from business to English studies. Each chapter takes the reader on a behind-the-scenes tour of hip-hop's importance in various areas of culture with references to leading literature and music. Intended for scholars and students of hip-hop, race, music, and communication as well as a general audience, this appealing, accessible book will enable readers to understand why hip-hop is so important and see why hip-hop has such far-reaching influence.

Author : Iwan Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755602072
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presidential Image written by Iwan Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presidential Image has become an integral part of the campaign, presidency and legacy of Modern American presidents. Across the 20th century to the age of Trump, presidential image has dominated media coverage and public consciousness, winning elections, gaining support for their leadership in office and shaping their reputation in history. Is the creation of the presidential image part of a carefully conceived public relations strategy or result of the president's critics and opponents? Can the way the media interpret a presidents' actions and words alter their image? And how much influence do cultural outputs contribute to the construction of a presidential image? Using ten presidential case studies. this edited collection features contributions from scholars and political journalists from the UK and America, to analyse aspects of Presidential Image that shaped their perceived effectiveness as America's leader, and to explore this complex, controversial, and continuous element of modern presidential politics.

Author : Kevin Powell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501198815
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man. written by Kevin Powell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the tradition of works by Joan Didion, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Eve Ensler, this “profoundly insightful and brilliantly inciting” (Dominique Morisseau, Obie Award-winning playwright) exploration of the soul of the United States—the past, the present, and the future Kevin Powell wants for us all, through the lens and lives of three major figures: his mother, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Ten short years ago, Barack Obama became president of the United States, and changed the course of history. Ten short years ago, our America was hailed globally as a breathtaking example of democracy, as a rainbow coalition of everyday people marching to the same drum beat. We had finally overcome. But had we? Both the presidencies of Obama and Donald Trump have produced some of the ugliest divides in history: horrific racial murders, non-stop mass shootings, the explosion of attacks on immigrants and on the LGBTQ community, the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, a massive gap between the haves and the have-nots, and legions of women stepping forth to challenge sexual violence—and men—in all forms. In this collection of thirteen powerful essays, “Kevin Powell thoughtfully weaves together the connective tissue between gender, race, sexuality, pop culture, and sports through a series of raw, incredibly personal essays” (Jemele Hill, writer and ESPN anchor). Be it politics, sports, pop culture, hip-hop music, mental health, racism, #MeToo, or his very complicated relationship with his mother, these impassioned essays are not merely a mirror of who we are, but also who and what Powell thinks we ought to be.

Author : Lester K. Spence
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816669872
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stare in the Darkness written by Lester K. Spence and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critiquing the true impact of hip-hop culture on politics.