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Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia
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Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama, this first interdisciplinary study of Obama's Indonesian and Hawai'ian years examines their effect on his adult character, political identity, and global world-view.

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Acknowledgments Prologue 1 Transformation of the American Mind 2 Origin Stories 3 Women Who Shaped Obama 4 Global Schooling in Jakarta 5 A New Spring in Hawai'i 6 Hybrid Identity on the Mainland 7 Obama's Mythic Dreams 8 The Obama World 9 Reimagining the American Dream List of References Index About the Author

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Dinesh Sharma, PhD, is a cultural psychologist and senior fellow at the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NY.

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Whatever the final historical judgment of Obama's presidency, the very fact of it resonates globally as it signals that the United States is more in sync with the rest of the world than its power-wielding implies and is ready for the multicultural changes of the 21st century, says cultural anthropologist Sharma. He draws on his insider-outsider perspective as an immigrant, written materials by and about Obama, and interviews with family, friends, neighbors, and teachers in Hawaii and Indonesia to offer the first cultural biography of Barack Obama. . . . Sharma offers intriguing glimpses of Obama's life and a compelling argument that Obama's singular background and his election as U.S. president despite distrust of his "otherness" make him a transformative figure as the United States grapples with emerging nations and its own decline as the world's only superpower.
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An enlightening account of Obama's boyhood chronicling an amazing transformation from an Indonesian slumdog ordinaire into a planetary prophet for the ages.
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Sharma (culture psychology and marketing, St. Francis College, New York) provides a psycho-cultural biography of President Obama in his first 18 years in Hawai'i and Indonesia, then later on as a young man in college and afterwards on the mainland United States. Using as evidence Obama's writings along with interviews with Obama's former teachers, his half-sister, classmates in the Catholic elementary school and state elementary school (that used Muslim prayers) that Obama attended as a child in Jakarta, and interviews in the elite prep school in Honolulu he later attended, the author contends that Obama is the United State's first global president, given that his first experiences were with multiracial, multiethnic, multilinguistic people in those areas. . . . Recommended.
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