How the Obama Presidency Changed the Political Landscape

Preface
Part One Race, Party Affiliation, and the New Majority
Chapter 1 The Body Politic: How Underrepresented Groups Can Gain Political Power
Christopher M. Whitt
Chapter 2 The Right to Vote, 50 Years Later: Do We Still Need the 1965 VRA?
Blanche M. Radford-Curry
Chapter 3 The Latino Vote: Growth, Influence, and How Obama Changed the Game
Andrew Martinez and Paola Esmieu
Chapter 4 African Americans, Voting, and the Republican Party
Donna L. Taylor
Chapter 5 Barack Obama and the Youth Vote
Glenn L. Starks
Chapter 6 New Definitions of Progressivism in the Age of Obama
Linda D. Tomlinson
Chapter 7 You Can't Call That Mentoring: The Fallacy of Mentoring in Obama's My Brother's Keeper
Torie Weiston-Serdan and Arash Daneshzadeh
Chapter 8 The Great Divider: Obama's Influence on Trust in Government and Racial Attitudes
Clarissa Peterson and Emmitt Y. Riley III
Part Two Coalition Building, Social Media, and Political Messaging
Chapter 9 Body Cameras and Policing: From Ferguson to Baltimore
MaCherie M. Placide
Chapter 10 President Obama: Code-Meshing and the Power of Speech in Racial Politics
Cassandra Chaney and Kyomi Gregory
Chapter 11 The Duplicitous Commodification of the Obama Presidency: Interrogating Barack Obama's Sociopolitical Assent and Relevance through a Conscious Hip-Hop Pedagogy
Ahmad R. Washington, Belema Idoniboye, and Marta N. Mack-Washington
Chapter 12 Black Women as Agents of Social Change during the Obama Presidency
Melissa Brown
Chapter 13 The Black President and the Black Body: The Intersection of Race, Class, Gender, and Violence in America
David O. Fakunle, Calvin J. Smiley, and Marisela B. Gomez
Chapter 14 HBCUs and Activism in the Post-Obama Era
Felecia Commodore and Robert T. Palmer
Chapter 15 Standardized Testing, Teacher Accountability, and the School Choice Debate
Nicole McZeal-Walters
Chapter 16 Use of Deadly Force: Policing and Accountability during the Obama Administration
Kimberly J. Rice, Keith Boeckelman, and Casey LaFrance
Index
About the Editors and Contributors