Othering Obama : How Whiteness Is Used To Undermine Authority,
2010
University of Louisville
Othering Obama : How Whiteness Is Used To Undermine Authority, David S. Owen
Faculty and Staff Scholarship
In this paper, I argue that the sociocultural structuring property of whiteness has been utilized to marginalize President Obama and effectively undermine his presidential authority. Whiteness functions in a largely invisible and ostensibly deracialized way to normalize the interests, needs, and values of whites, while at the same time marginalizing and devaluing the voice of people of color. Analyzing the health care debate through this theoretical lens generates insights into how the debate reproduced the system of racial oppression, and how whiteness functions in political discourse.
Campaigning In Judicial Elections: The Effects Of Candidate Status,
2010
University of Northern Iowa
Campaigning In Judicial Elections: The Effects Of Candidate Status, Katelyn Marie Bries
Honors Program Theses
While campaigns for judicial elections in general have received more attention, relatively little research has been done regarding the differences in campaigning for open-seat and incumbent-challenger elections. Because they are the most common type of judicial election, incumbent-challenger races have been the focus of most research conducted thus far. Yet, open seat competitions are important as well. With the incumbent advantage absent in these elections, factors that would otherwise play only a minor role in determining who will be elected have the potential to be much more exaggerated than they do in incumbent-challenger races; consequently, it will be easier to …
