The author of this article talks to Everdayfolk about the outcome of the presidential election and its relationship with how change is subtle after Obama’s election, how things are still the same yet there has been a “shift” somehow. This is relevant to my thesis and has quotes I can use to support my arguments.
2) LeBron, Marisol. "Obama and Myths of Racial Democracy." Racialicious 19 Nov 2008 5 Dec 2008
The author of this article discusses the myth of the media’s insistence on a post-racial society. This article has a lots of written and video information that I can use to suppose and maybe even refute my argument.
3)Wenner, Jan S.. "A Conversation With Barack Obama." Rollingstone 7 Jul 2008: 34-39.
This article conveys Barack Obama’s ideologies and conveys his attempts to relate to the younger generation. I can use this in my essay when discussing how Obama has influenced a new generation of people maybe to engage themselves more in American politics.
4) Hawley, John C.. Postcolonial and queer theories : intersections and essays . Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001.
This book discusses certain islands of identities in depth so that I can learn more about the backgrounds of how race and sexuality played among the outcome of the 2008 election.
5) Vasil, Raj K.. Politics in bi-racial societies : the Third World experience . New York: Advent Books, 1984.
This books discusses race relations in developing countries and I may utilize this text to parallel America’s relationship with race and compare our current racial relationships to other countries’.
6) Dupuis, Martin. Barack Obama, the new face of American politics . Westport: Praeger, 2008.
This book will aid me in understanding and learning more about Barack Obama’s presidential expectations and potential.
7)Rabushka, Alvin. A theory of racial harmony.. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1974.
This book will help interconnect my argument toward more optimistic patterns concerning America’s future.
8) Shulman, George. American prophecy : race and redemption in American political culture . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
This books seems very relevant to my thesis on the politics of racial theory in the outcome of the 2008 elections and will strongly reinforce my arguments.
9) Marentes, Luis A.. José Vasconcelos and the writing of the Mexican Revolution . New York: Twayne Publishers, 2000.
This book seems to talk in depth about racial theory and I can broaden my thesis to other realms of culture that spans beyond black and white.
10) Glover, Terry. "Can Michelle Be America's Hostess." Ebony JET 26 Nov 2008 5 Dec 2008
I can use this article to as a rebuttal against my paper, but I will have a lot to say against it because I disagree with the author that the Black First Lady, Michelle Obama, is not merely America’s “hostess”.
Jessica Ortanez
Flamer-Banks
AFRS 214
4 December 2008
Research Paper Proposal
My tentative title is: Encountering the Cross-currence of Meltingpot Dreams. This election enlightens a cross-racial/cultural feminism through a Black first lady and Black First Daughters that subsequently promote a redefinition of beauty among the women of America both past, present and future: the beauty of difference.
The preliminary issue that I will extend in this essay is how the multi-media has conditioned Americans to perceive beauty. Whether it be on television, or in Vogue magazine, the stores we go to purchase items for our wardrobes, the beauty departments at Macy’s- all of these things affect our conceptual frameworks about the double-consciousness of both being a Womyn and one of color-fullness too.
I will use information from such blogs that promote a general awareness and activism towards Womyn of color issues. Racialicious, A Woman’s Ecdysis, Queer women of Color, Angry Black Woman, La Chola… all of these blogs I will use as my online evidence in discussing Womyn of color perceptions of beauty.
(A subtle issue I will discuss how Obama’s campaign for Change is really a statement to be reckoned with because when race and politics intermingle you have to acknowledge the truth about these relationships in the most sincerest ways to really promote decolonized change--- this I will try to relate to my thesis by showing how we first have to acknowledge and accept that America has a problem with with Womyn of Color beauty (and will continue to do so) before we can allow for transformation among these things to take place. This is also the rebuttal I will openly discuss in my paper concerning the parallels that White Feminists may have in retaliation to the opening up of this new colorfull beauty corridor of this Era.
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Speaking of both civil rights and gender rights, Michelle Obama said, “I stand here at the cross-currence of that dream.”
