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The Audacity of Races and Genders: A Personal and Global Story of the Obama Election
The Audacity of Races and Genders A Personal and Global Story of the Obama Election Author:Zillah Eisenstein In this exciting and insightful new work, Zillah Eisenstein weighs up the new anti-imperial possibilities created by the 2008 election of Barack Obama. Eisenstein likens the end of the Bush/Cheney presidency to the fall of Stalin, or Pinochet, and asks whether this is a key historical moment that will alter race and gender in newly unknown ways.... more » Tracing the social and political presence of Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, The Audacity of Race and Gender presents 25 conceptual "frames" of fast-paced critical analysis. Illuminated by her distinctive style and personal narrative, Eisenstein challenges her readers to always be looking for the "newly new" political configurations in order to create a politics of and for the globe.« less