Barack Obama, the 2008 Presidential Election, and the New Cosmopolitanism: Figuring the Black Body
Obama's physical embodiment of what might be called "cosmopolitan blackness" also contributes to a current debate over the promises and dangers of a revitalized cosmopolitan social ethic. Since the mid 1990s a time period that overlaps with the publication of Obama's 1995 Dreams...
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