Our Foreign President Barack Obama: The Racial Logics of Birther Discourses. Pham, V. N. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 8(2):86–107, May, 2015.
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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 movement associated 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.
@article{pham_our_2015,
	title = {Our {Foreign} {President} {Barack} {Obama}: {The} {Racial} {Logics} of {Birther} {Discourses}},
	volume = {8},
	issn = {1751-3057},
	doi = {10.1080/ 17513057.2015.1025327},
	abstract = {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 movement associated 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.},
	number = {2},
	journal = {Journal of International and Intercultural Communication},
	author = {Pham, Vincent N.},
	month = may,
	year = {2015},
	keywords = {0.Discussed in Workshop, 5.DL\&R workshop syllabus readings, Asian American, critical race rhetoric, fragmentation, nationality, public address, race, racial triangulation, soveriegnty},
	pages = {86--107},
}

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