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Autore: | Carotenuto Matthew |
Titolo: | Obama and Kenya : contested histories and the politics of belonging / / Matthew Carotenuto and Katherine Luongo |
Pubblicazione: | Athens : , : Ohio University Press, , [2016] |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 327.7306762 |
Soggetto topico: | Group identity - Kenya |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Relations Kenya |
Kenya Relations United States | |
United States Politics and government 2009- | |
Kenya Politics and government 2002- | |
Persona (resp. second.): | LuongoKatherine <1975-> |
Note generali: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Part I. Obama and Kenya -- Discovering Obama in Kenya -- Representations of Kenya: myth and reality -- The Obama family: ethnicity and the politics of belonging in Kenya -- Part II. Contested histories and the politics of belonging -- The politics of condemnation: the American right's reactions to Obama's roots in Kenya -- The politics of celebration: ethnic grandeur and Obama's heroic embrace -- Political violence and history at the ballot box -- Obama for Africa or Africans for Obama? -- Epilogue: Tuko Pamoja: we are together. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Part I. Obama and Kenya -- Discovering Obama in Kenya -- Representations of Kenya: myth and reality -- The Obama family: ethnicity and the politics of belonging in Kenya -- Part II. Contested histories and the politics of belonging -- The politics of condemnation: the American right's reactions to Obama's roots in Kenya -- The politics of celebration: ethnic grandeur and Obama's heroic embrace -- Political violence and history at the ballot box -- Obama for Africa or Africans for Obama? -- Epilogue: Tuko Pamoja: we are together. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Obama and Kenya |
ISBN: | 0-89680-492-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910504304103321 |
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