Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One. Race, Party Affiliation, and the New Majority -- Chapter 1. The Body Politic: How Underrepresented Groups Can Gain Political Power -- Chapter 2. The Right to Vote, 50 Years Later: Do We Still Need the 1965 VRA? -- Chapter 3. The Latino Vote: Growth, Influence, and How Obama Changed the Game -- Chapter 4. African Americans, Voting, and the Republican Party -- Chapter 5. Barack Obama and the Youth Vote -- Chapter 6. New Definitions of Progressivism in the Age of Obama -- Chapter 7. You Can't Call That Mentoring: The Fallacy of Mentoring in Obama's My Brother's Keeper -- Chapter 8. The Great Divider: Obama's Influence on Trust in Government and Racial Attitudes -- Part Two. Coalition Building, Social Media, and Political Messaging -- Chapter 9. Body Cameras and Policing: From Ferguson to Baltimore -- Chapter 10. President Obama: Code-Meshing and the Power of Speech in Racial Politics -- Chapter 11. The Duplicitous Commodification of the Obama Presidency: Interrogating Barack Obama's Sociopolitical Assent and Relevance through a Conscious Hip-Hop Pedagogy -- Chapter 12. Black Women as Agents of Social Change during the Obama Presidency -- Chapter 13. The Black President and the Black Body: The Intersection of Race, Class, Gender, and Violence in America -- Chapter 14. HBCUs and Activism in the Post-Obama Era -- Chapter 15. Standardized Testing, Teacher Accountability, and the School Choice Debate -- Chapter 16. Use of Deadly Force: Policing and Accountability during the Obama Administration -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors