Yes We Can?: White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency

by Joe R. Feagin and Adia Harvey Wingfield

Book Overview

The first edition of this book offered one of the first social science analyses of Barack Obama's historic electoral campaigns and early presidency. In this second edition the authors extend that analysis to Obama's service in the presidency and to his second campaign to hold that presidency. Elaborating on the concept of the white racial frame, Harvey Wingfield and Feagin assess in detail the ways white racial framing was deployed by the principal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415645387
• ISBN13: 9780415645386
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"