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The Power of One
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Black Renaissance
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January 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Institute of African American Affairs Winter 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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When Oprah Winfrey announced her intention to endorse the presidential candidacy of Senator Barack Obama, the race and gender dynamics of the American media machine quivered and paused, if ever so slightly, in its eternal milling of the lowest possible common denominator.
This monkey wrench thrown into the cogs of pulp culture was of an unforeseen yet logical complexity. Heretofore, Barack Obama had been constructed as the boyish, "articulate" embodiment of what every white American wished that every black American looked like: not from the ghetto but working there; civilized by a white mother but content to marry someone else's daughter; a hard-working immigrant father from someplace the ...
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