Dedication

pp iii-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

About the authors

pp vii-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

Part I - The Biracial Factor in America

pp 1-2

One - Obama and the Biracial Factor: an Introduction

pp 3-30

Two - Race, Multiraciality, and the Election of Barack Obama: Toward a More Perfect Union?

pp 31-60

Three - “A Patchwork Heritage”: Multiracial Citation in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father

pp 61-80

Four - Racial Revisionism, Caste Revisited: Whiteness, Blackness, and Barack Obama

pp 81-96

Part II - Beyond Black and White Identity Politics

pp 97-98

Five - Obama Mamas and Mixed Race: Hoping For “a More Perfect Union”

pp 99-112

Six - Is “No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama?”

pp 113-128

Seven - Mixed Race Kin-Aesthetics in the Age of Obama

pp 129-140

Eight - Mutt Like Me: Barack Obama and the Mixed Race Experience in Historical Perspective

pp 141-166

Part III - The Battle for a New American Majority

pp 167-168

Nine - A Different Kind of Blackness: The Question of Obama's Blackness and Intraracial Variation Among African Americans

pp 169-190

Ten - Avoiding Race or Following the Racial Scripts? Obama and Race in the Recessionary Part of the Colorblind Era

pp 191-204

Eleven - Barack Obama and the Rise to Power: Emmett Till Revisited

pp 205-226

Index

pp 227-237