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Lecture | Enacting Innocence: Barack Obama's Speech on Race in the Context of American Exceptionalism

Friday, May 4, 2012, 1:15 pm

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Barack Obama's election has been understood as the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, tangible proof that the African American community's pursuit of full equality in America has reached a high-water mark. The key to Obama's election, however, was not the calls for reform that characterized the rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement, but a ceaseless invocation of American exceptionalism that supported - indeed reinvigorated - the premise of American innocence. This is most evident at the pivotal moment in Obama's campaign: his speech, "A More Perfect Union," delivered during the tumult resulting from Reverend Jeremiah Wright's critical comments about American foreign policy.

Jonathan W. Gray, a writer in residence in the Allen Room, is Assistant Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Jusitce. This talk is adapted from his forthcoming book, Innocence by Association: Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination.

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