The liberal black Protestant heterosexual bourgeois male
Subtitle: from W.E.B. Du Bois to Barack Obama
By: Paul C. Mocombe
Publisher: University Press of America; UPA
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780761848011; 9780761847571; 9780761848035
Subjects: Social conditions; African American men; Race identity
Description: "In this book, Mocombe illustrates ways that Barack Obama is the embodiment of the social identity, the liberal black Protestant heterosexual male, that contemporarily looks to serve as the bearer of ideological and linguistic domination for all folks, blacks, whites, Asians, etc., in America and world societies impacted by Western civilization. The articulation of the discourse of this identity is best represented in the work of W. E. B. Du Bois; furthermore, Obama is a paragon for Du Bois' construct. This work juxtaposes the ideals and practices of Du Bois and Obama in order to articulate the discourse and discursive practice of the soulless social identity that seeks to institute its presence in the post-enlightenment world."--P. 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-125) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the Liberal Black Protestant Heterosexual Bourgeois Male; title: Heterosexual Protestant bourgeois liberalism; title: On the interpretation of Du Bois's double consciousness; title: Double consciousness and the liberal black Protestant heterosexual bourgeois male identity; title: Barack Obama and the demystification of black double consciousness; title: On the interpretation of Obama's double consciousness; title: Black consciousness today and the Liberal Black Protestant Heterosexual Bourgeois Male Identity; title: Fait Accompli.