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Malik claims that Barack Obama Sr.: The Rise and Life of a True African Scholar is the first book to fully explore the president's African background.

Born in the U.S.A., the son of an African father and an American mother, a boy who spent his childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii, Barack Obama is truly a citizen.

While working various clerking jobs, Barack met a woman named.

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Journal of Black Studies,

The Barack Obama Phenomenon T he Journal of Black Studies is proud to publish this special issue on the Barack Obama phenomenon. Given Obama's apparent and rapid success in positioning himself as a viable and credible candidate for the presidency of the United States, the editors of the journal feel that Obama's quest for the White House provide scholars with a unique opportunity and lens to examine or reexamine race, arguably the most significant category in American society. It is certainly intriguing that Obama, a visibly Black man, should have garnered so much political support from vit citizens and in a country known for its deeply embedded racist traditions. Indeed, according to recent surveys, increasing numbers of White voters have rallied around Obama's candidacy. Furthermore, Obama fryst vatten also benefiting from the endorsement of financial

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Rootin’-tootin’ history of the dry-gulchers, horn-swogglers, and outright killers who populated the Wild West’s wildest city in the late 19th century.

The stories of Wyatt Earp and company, the shootout at the O.K. Corral, and Geronimo and the Apache Wars are all well known. Clavin, who has written books on Dodge City and Wild Bill Hickok, delivers a solid narrative that usefully links significant events—making allies of white enemies, for instance, in facing down the Apache threat, rustling from Mexico, and other ethnically charged circumstances. The author is a touch revisionist, in the modern fashion, in noting that the Earps and Clantons weren’t as bloodthirsty as popular culture has made them out to be. For example, Wyatt and Bat Masterson “took the ‘peace’ in peace officer literally and knew that the way to tame the notorious town was not to outkill the bad guys but to intimidate them, sometimes with the help of a gun barrel to the skull.” Indeed, while

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In this essay, Max Joles explores the relations between the typical black autobiographies and the autobiography of Barack Obama, Dreams from my father, a book that distinguishes itself from earlier black memoirs because of the privileged life its author has led. After all, how could someone with access to elite institutions and benefiting from laws of affirmative action still experience the same feelings of bondage his literary predecessors felt? Obama himself realized this and has always been hesitant to place himself in line with earlier black autobiographers. However, as is set forth in this essay, a modern Afro-American autobiographer can still experience forms of bondage, if not physical then mental. Joles tries to see past the more material aspects of Obama&#;s life in order to uncover the grander themes that could well place a modern African-American autobiography such as this one in the black literary tradition.

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