'Change we can believe in?' Barack Obama, race and the 2008 US presidential election

被引：1

作者：

Verney, Kevern ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Edge Hill Univ, Dept English & Hist, Ormskirk L39 4QP, Lancs, England

来源：

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS | 2011年 / 48卷 / 2-3期

基金：

英国艺术与人文研究理事会;

关键词：

Obama; John McCain; Jesse Jackson; race; US electoral politics;

D O I：

10.1057/ip.2011.13

中图分类号：

D81 [国际关系];

学科分类号：

030207 ;

摘要：

This article addresses two questions. It begins by comparing the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination contest with the 1980s campaigns of Jesse Jackson. It examines the different background and personalities of Obama and Jackson, together with an analysis of what has changed in US political life in the intervening decades, in an attempt to understand why Obama succeeded where the earlier Jackson campaigns failed. The second part of the article analyses the subsequent general election with a view to determining whether Obama's defeat of John McCain should be seen as a result of a unique set of political circumstances, or evidence of the increasing irrelevance of race in US electoral politics. In particular, this discussion assesses the validity of the claims made by some commentators that Obama's victory marks the beginning of a new 'post-racial' era in American political life. International Politics (2011) 48, 344-363. doi:10.1057/ip.2011.13

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页码：344 / 363

页数：20