{"product_id":"double-consciousness-and-the-rhetoric-of-barack-obama-the-price-and-promise-of-citizenship-9781611175318","title":"Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship","description":"Robert E. Terrill argues that, in order to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained citizenship since its inception. In Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama, Terrill demonstrates how President Barack Obama�s public address models such a discourse.\u003cbr\u003eTerrill contends that Obama�s most effective oratory invites his audiences to experience a form of �double-consciousness,� which was famously described by W. E. B. Du Bois as a feeling of �two-ness� resulting from the African American experience of �always looking at one�s self through the eyes of others.� It is described as an effect of cruel alienation that can also bring a gift of �second-sight� in the form of perspectives on practices of citizenship not available to those in positions of privilege. When addressing fellow citizens, Obama is asking each to share in the �peculiar sensation� that Du Bois described. The racial history of U.S. citizenship is a resource for inventing contemporary ways of speaking about race. \u003cbr\u003eJoining with other work that suggests that double-consciousness may be a vital democratic attitude, Terrill extends those insights to consider it as a mode of address. Through close analyses of selected speeches from Obama�s 2008 campaign and first presidential term, this book argues that Obama does not present double-consciousness merely as a point of view but rather as an idiom with which we might speak to one another. Of course, as Du Bois�s work reminds us, double-consciousness results from imposition and encumbrance, so that Obama�s oratory presents a mode of address that emphasizes the burdens of citizenship together with the benefits, the price as well as the promise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Terrill, Robert E.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611175318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Robert E. Terrill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32749521993803,"sku":"9781611175318","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_56c8df90-38e6-457a-96a7-009b4fe6bca5.jpg?v=1597790898","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/double-consciousness-and-the-rhetoric-of-barack-obama-the-price-and-promise-of-citizenship-9781611175318","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}