Our Foreign President Barack Obama: The Racial Logics of Birther Discourses

被引：24

作者：

Pham, Vincent N. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Calif State Univ San Marcos, Commun, 333 S Twin Oaks Valley Rd,SBSB 2116, San Marcos, CA 92096 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION | 2015年 / 8卷 / 02期

关键词：

Birther Racial Logic; Race and Relationality; Rhetoric of Foreignness; Birthright Citizenship; Post-Racial Discourse;

D O I：

10.1080/17513057.2015.1025327

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

This essay centers race in taking serious an often-dismissed movement, the Birthers, who question Barack Obama's citizenship and deem him as an illegitimate president. Through a historical and relational lens, I argue that the Birther rhetoric of constitutional protection relies on racial logics used in previous discourses about foreignness to delineate acceptable citizenship for the presidency and mark Obama as untrustworthy. By analyzing the Birthers. org website and two Birther movementassociated media figures, Orly Taitz and Donald Trump, Birther discourses manipulate rationality, reinforce a White racial state, and activate anxieties over an increasingly multi-racial and global society.

引用

页码：86 / 107

页数：22

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