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Michael P. Jeffries, Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013, £20.95). Pp. 156. isbn978 0 8047 8096 4.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2014

JOSEPHINE METCALF
JOSEPHINE METCALF*
Affiliation:
University of Hull
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , May 2014 , E64
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References

1 Kriess, Daniel, Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)Google Scholar; Clayton, Dewey, The Presidential Campaign of Barack Obama: A Critical Analysis of a Racially Transcendent Strategy (Oxford: Routledge, 2010)Google Scholar; Logan, Enid, “At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race (New York: New York University Press, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Verney, Kevern, Mark Ledwige and Inderjeet Parmar (eds.), Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-racial America (Oxford: Routledge, 2013)Google Scholar.

2 In an interview, Michael Jeffries explains that the phrase itself comes from an old George Clinton song, though he stated, “that's not what the title itself really means in this case. The title is about how racial meaning disguises itself and takes over the meaning of other ideas and discourses.” See Booker, Bobbi, “‘Paint the White House Black’ Explores Race,” Philadelphia Tribune, 21 July 2013Google Scholar, available at www.phillytrib.com.

3 See Appendix 2 in Jeffries, Paint the White House, 163–69, for further information on the sample of people who were interviewed and the questions that were asked.

4 For educators, it is worth noting that Appendix 1 in Jeffries, Paint the White House, 157–62, offers an excellent summary of racial inequality across various elements of society (health, employment, education, incarceration, etc.). Appendix 1's summary of key theoretical approaches for studying racial inequality (which he details at length in the book itself) could similarly be a valuable teaching tool.