Obama and the paradigm shift
Subtitle: measuring change
By: edited by Birte Christ, Greta Olson
Series: American studies--a monograph series -- v. 225; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 225.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9783825360696
Subjects: Influence; Political culture; Congresses; History; Political leadership; Race; Politics and government
Notes: Based on a conference "Obama and the paradigm shift: the measure of change in the U.S. and Germany," which took place in Giessen, Germany in the summer of 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : what has the Obama presidency changed?  -- Greta Olson; title: Reflections on the problem of race in the age of Obama  -- Thomas C. Holt; title: The right to bare arms : reading Michelle Obama's public image  -- M. Michaela Hampf; title: Barack Obama's "identity performance" and the intersection of race and gender during the nomination battle against Hillary Clinton  -- Gabriele Dietze; title: Weighing in on Obama : connections between embodiment, class, and masculinity in the United States and Germany  -- Greta Olson; title: Obama and paradigm change? : no way to escape the political divide  -- Andreas Falke; title: Michelle Obama, the Good American and icon of global power femininity : gender politics and national boundary-making in German news coverage  -- Birte Christ; title: Shattering ceilings worldwide : Obama's presidency and its impact on the identity and political consciousness of children in the United States, Sierra Leone, China, Russia, and Jamaica  -- Helen Bond; title: The Birthers' new world order : conspiracy theories about Barack Obama  -- Michael Butter; title: Images of the political : Obama and post-democracy  -- Jörn Ahrens; title: The poetics of presidency and the promises of change : reading Barack Obama  -- Sabine Sielke; title: Conclusions: a paradigm shift in fits and stars -- Allyson Hobbs.