| ID | 165063 |
| Title Proper | Manhunt Presidency: Obama, race, and the Third World |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Krishna, Sankaran |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | President Obama’s commitment to a creedal narrative of American exceptionalism and his understanding of the Third World as a space of ontological deficit together made for a presidency that could neither mitigate the structural racism of the United States nor deflect a racist foreign policy premised on an unending war against terror. By examining the murders of two American teenagers – Trayvon Martin and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki – this essay argues that the very self-fashioning narratives that propelled Obama to the presidency of the United States rendered him incapable of effecting any substantive changes in the racism than animates its domestic and foreign policies. |
| `In' analytical Note | Third World Quarterly Vol. 40, No.2; 2019: p.284-297 |
| Journal Source | Third World Quarterly Vol: 40 No 2 |
| Key Words | Racism ; Third World ; War on Terror ; American Exceptionalism ; Obama ; Drones |