I heart Obama
By: Erin Aubry Kaplan
Publisher: ForeEdge, An imprint of University Press of New England
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Lebanon, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781611685367; 9781611689679
Subjects: Politics and government; Election; Race identity; Presidents; African American leadership; Influence; African Americans
Description: "In his two terms as president, Barack Obama solidified his status as something black people haven't had for fifty years: a folk hero. The 1960s delivered Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr., forever twinned as larger-than-life outsiders and truth tellers who took on racism and died in the process. Obama is different: Not an outsider but president, head of the most powerful state in the world; a centrist Democrat, not the face of a movement. Yet he is every bit a folk hero, doing battle with the beast of a system created to keep people like him on the margins. He is unique among presidents and entirely unique among black people, who never expected to have a president so soon"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Obama the folk hero: what he means to us; title: Obama represents; title: Obama leads; title: Who is this guy?; title: Is Obama bad for us?; title: Epilogue: I heart Obama.