Obama and Kenya : contested histories and the politics of belonging / Matthew Carotenuto and Katherine Luongo
By: Carotenuto, Matthew [author].
Contributor(s): Luongo, Katherine [author] | Ohio Library and Information Network.
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TextSeries: Research in international studiesGlobal and comparative studies series: no. 15Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2016Description: xvi, 265 pages.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780896804920; 0896804925.Subject(s): Obama, Barack -- Family | Group identity -- Kenya | United States -- Relations -- Kenya | Kenya -- Relations -- United States | United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017 | Kenya -- Politics and government -- 2002-Genre/Form: Electronic booksAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Obama and Kenya.DDC classification: 327.7306762 Online resources: Knowledge Unlatched OAPEN (Open Access) Connect to resource | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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Barack Obama's political ascendancy has focused worldwide attention on Kenya. Carotenuto and Luongo argue that efforts to cast Obama as a "son of the soil" of the Lake Victoria basin invite insights into the politicized uses of Kenya's past
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