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Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging
Matthew Carotenuto
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Description for Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging
Paperback. Series: Ohio RIS Global Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Barack Obama's political ascendancy has focused considerable global attention on the history of Kenya generally and the history of the Luo community particularly. From politicos populating the blogosphere and bookshelves in the U.S and Kenya, to tourists traipsing through Obama's ancestral home, a variety of groups have mobilized new readings of Kenya's past in service of their own ends. Through narratives placing Obama into a simplified, sweeping narrative of anticolonial barbarism and postcolonial tribal violence, the story of the United States president's nuanced relationship to Kenya has been lost amid stereotypical ... Read more
Barack Obama's political ascendancy has focused considerable global attention on the history of Kenya generally and the history of the Luo community particularly. From politicos populating the blogosphere and bookshelves in the U.S and Kenya, to tourists traipsing through Obama's ancestral home, a variety of groups have mobilized new readings of Kenya's past in service of their own ends. Through narratives placing Obama into a simplified, sweeping narrative of anticolonial barbarism and postcolonial tribal violence, the story of the United States president's nuanced relationship to Kenya has been lost amid stereotypical ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Ohio RIS Global Series
Condition
New
Weight
354g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780896803008
SKU
V9780896803008
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About Matthew Carotenuto
Matthew Carotenuto is associate professor of history and coordinator of African Studies at St. Lawrence University. He studies the ways Kenyan identities are imagined within the context of colonial violence, postcolonial politics, and indigenous sport. Katherine Luongo is associate professor of history at Northeastern University. Her work examines the supernatural, law, and politics in Africa, and global asylum seeking. Her ... Read more
Reviews for Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging
This book ... represents a laudable attempt to confront distorted and false depictions of Obama and the Kenyan past and present that have appeared since 2008 in scholarly and nonscholarly works ... In a book that will be useful in American university classrooms and now even more among the general public as Obama is succeeded as chief executive by ... Read more