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Anti-Obama Backlash
Author_Matthew Frye Jacobson
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Contemporary America
Deindustrialization
Documentary Photography
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Great ecession of 2008
Historical Pedagogy
History of the Present
Immigration
Islamophobia in the United States
Neoliberalism
Obama Presidency
Occupy Wall Street
Political Economy
Political Iconography
Political Polarization
Race in the United States
Racism
Trumpism
Unemployment
US Politics
Whiteness
Product details
- ISBN 9781469669366
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 177 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2022
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Between 2009 and 2014, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the "historian's eye" during this tumultuous period. Having collected several thousand images, Jacobson began to reflect on their raw, informal immediacy alongside the recognition that they comprised an archive of a moment with unquestionable historical significance. This book presents more than 100 images alongside Jacobson's recollections of their moments of creation and his understanding of how they link past, present, and future. Jacobson's documentary work between 2009 and 2014 tracked in real time the emergence of what we now know as Trumpism.
The images reveal diverse expressions of civic engagement that are emblematic of the aspirations, expectations, promises, and failures of this period in American history. Myriad closed businesses and abandoned storefronts stand as public monuments to widespread distress; omnipresent, expectant Obama iconography articulates a wish for new national narratives; flamboyant street theater and wry signage bespeak a common impulse to talk back to power. Framed by an introductory essay, these images reflect the sober grace of a time that seems perilous, but in which "hope" has not ceased to hold meaning.
The images reveal diverse expressions of civic engagement that are emblematic of the aspirations, expectations, promises, and failures of this period in American history. Myriad closed businesses and abandoned storefronts stand as public monuments to widespread distress; omnipresent, expectant Obama iconography articulates a wish for new national narratives; flamboyant street theater and wry signage bespeak a common impulse to talk back to power. Framed by an introductory essay, these images reflect the sober grace of a time that seems perilous, but in which "hope" has not ceased to hold meaning.
Matthew Frye Jacobson is the Sterling Professor of American Studies and History at Yale University.
