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T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is the director of Vanderbilt University's Program in African American and Diaspora Studies and the W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies. She is the author of four books, including the award-winning Pimps Up, Ho's Down, and the editor or coeditor of five others, most recently The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.
| Chloroform Morning Joe! | p. 1 |
| Introduction | |
| Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" | |
| Wright Stuff, Wrong Time, Part I | p. 19 |
| Obama and the Generational Challenge | p. 25 |
| Living the Dream | p. 40 |
| Black Like Barack | p. 55 |
| The Audacity of Post-Racism | p. 69 |
| Between Expediency and Conviction: What We Mean When We Say "Post-Racial" | p. 85 |
| His Grandmother, My Father, Your Uncle | p. 102 |
| Nuanced Genius, Part II | p. 113 |
| L'Effet Obama: Diversity and "A More Perfect Republic" | p. 119 |
| Why Obama's Race Speech Is a Model for the Political Framing of Race and Poverty | p. 132 |
| A Belief in the Unseen: A Nation Still at Risk | p. 142 |
| A More Perfect (High-Tech) Lynching: Obama, the Press, and Jeremiah Wright | p. 155 |
| "It's Been a Long Time Comin, but Our Change Done Come" | p. 184 |
| Barack in the Dirty, Dirty South | p. 205 |
| Mutt on CP Time, Discipline of Malcolm, Part III | p. 224 |
| The Speech | |
| A More Perfect Union | p. 237 |
| About the Contributors | p. 253 |
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