As the first African American president, Barack Obama faced unique
challenges and obstacles when addressing issues of race. While
rhetorical attacks on the basis of race directed at Obama were not
unexpected, many of the most consistent racially-motivated
criticisms of Obama were associated with his religious identity.
The Jeremiah Wright controversy gave way to the birther and 'secret
Muslim' conspiracy theories, while anxieties about Obama's identity
proved particularly potent as modes of political attack in the
context of the war on terror. This book examines the ways in which
those attacks often originated in the rhetoric of the Christian
Right and the ways in which these theories circulated amongst the
Christian Right. Perry argues that the intersections of race and
religion in American politics produced rhetoric that often
caricatured Obama as un-American, anti-Christian, and an enemy of
the state. By exploring the arguments used to cultivate these
characterizations and tracing the roots of conspiracies that worked
to delegitimize Obama's religious identity through racial claims
and stereotypes, a clearer picture emerges of what is at stake when
people can no longer separate religious convictions from political
arguments.
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