Show Me Your Papers! Obama's Birth and the Whiteness of Belonging

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 163-181

  Hughey, Matthew W ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birthers; Citizenship; Obama; Online discourse; Race; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861459542     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-012-9224-6     Document Type: Article

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