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Trash Talk - Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Trash Talk - Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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What racist rumors about Barack Obama tell us about the
intractability of racism in American politics. Barack Obama and his
family have been the objects of rumors, legends, and conspiracy
theories unprecedented in US politics. Outbreaks of anti-Obama lore
have occurred in every national election cycle since 2004 and
continue to the present day-two elections after his presidency
ended. In Trash Talk, folklorist Patricia A. Turner examines how
these thought patterns have grown ever more vitriolic and
persistent and what this means for American political culture.
Through the lens of attacks on Obama, Trash Talk explores how
racist tropes circulate and gain currency. As internet
communications expand in reach, rumors and conspiracy theories have
become powerful political tools, and new types of lore like the
hoax and fake news have taken root. The mainstream press and
political establishment dismissed anti-Obama mythology for years,
registering concern only when it became difficult to deny how much
power those who circulated it could command. Trash Talk
demonstrates that the ascendancy of Barack Obama was never a signal
of a postracial America.
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