In Obama’s campaign en route to winning the Presidency in 2008, The New Yorker published on its cover page a caricature of Barack and Michelle Obama that generated much discussion. Stevens and King-Meadows, in the Howard Journal of Communications’ special issue, revisits The New Yorker’s publication and analyzes the meaning behind that controversial cover page. In another article, Glenn explores Obama’s special relationship with indigenous Americans and remarks that Obama uses “a ‘nations-within’ concept . . . that contrasts markedly with past presidential rhetoric concerning indigenous Americans.” While several of the articles focus on President Obama and his tenure, Meyers and Goman focus on the First Lady, Michelle Obama, and investigate how the White House uses Youtube videos to redefine the First Lady via intersectionality of race, gender, and class.
This is a can’t miss special issue that is both a must read and a must keep. It is certain to be a historical issue for sometime to come. You may access the issue and its articles via the Taylor and Francis website for the Howard Journal of Communications:
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uhjc20/current.
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