TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carotenuto,Matthew
AU  - Luongo,Katherine
ED  - Ohio Library and Information Network.
TI  - Obama and Kenya: contested histories and the politics of belonging 
T2  - Ohio University research in international studies, global and comparative studies series
SN  - 9780896804920
AV  - E183.8.K4 C37 2016eb
U1  - 327.7306762 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Athens
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Obama, Barack
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Kenya
KW  - United States
KW  - Relations
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2009-2017
KW  - 2002-
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Open Access Electronic Book
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/8bedd1de-4054-4233-a73a-12368058e191
ER  -