Open AccessBarack Obama and the Power of Critical Personal Narrative
Author(s) -
Shante's Holley,
Maja Miskovic
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
power and education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 13
ISSN - 1757-7438
DOI - 10.2304/power.2009.1.1.15
Subject(s) - narrative , mainstream , hegemony , curriculum , narrative network , power (physics) , sociology , narrative inquiry , power structure , representation (politics) , narrative criticism , politics , pedagogy , critical race theory , political science , public relations , racism , gender studies , law , philosophy , quantum mechanics , linguistics , physics
This article contextualizes the narrative of the US President Barack Obama to provide an understanding of critical personal narrative (CPN) and its use in mainstream curricula. The authors contend that Barack Obama's narrative serves as a means to understand racial hegemony and the politics of representation in a curricular setting. Through providing an understanding of CPN it is suggested that educational opportunities exist for African American students to rewrite their own educational narratives and for educational practitioners to facilitate this process. In so doing, they are documenting the unfolding present, looking onward to the future yet to be realized.
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