Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Chapter 1: Through the fog 1
5. Chapter 2: My (founding) father’s son. Race, Nation, and the Politics of Inheritance 19
6. Chapter 3: “Mutts like me” Barack Obama, Tragic Mulattos, and Cool Mixed-Race Millennials 49
7. Chapter 4: Postracialism reconsidered Class, the Black Counterpublic, and the End of Black Politics 81
8. Chapter 5: The perils of being superwoman Michelle Obama’s Public Image 115
9. Chapter 6: A place called “Obama” 149
10. Appendix I. A Discussion of Racial Inequality 157
11. Appendix II. Interviewing Multiracial Students 163
12. Notes 171
13. Index 201