From David Walker to President Obama: Tropes of the Founding Fathers in African American Discourses of Democracy, or The Legacy of Ishmael
More than a century after the Emancipation Proclamation, in a society that still others blackness, we continue to hold to the mythical humanizing power of literacy. In our own time this has been poignantly evinced in the public reception of the current President of the United States, Barack Obama. H...
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Göttingen University Press
2012-01-01
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| Series: | American Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.asjournal.org/archive/56/210.html |