Mazama is an Associate Professor of African American Studies with a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne, five books and more than fifty articles. She is the co-editor o the Encyclopedia of Black Studies. Her forthcoming book will be on the Vodun religion in Haiti.Molefi Asante is a distinguished scholar and is best known for creating the discipline of Black Studies over 25 years ago.  He is the Editor for the Journal of Black Studies (Sage) and the Encyclopedia of Black Studies (Sage Reference, 12/04  933 units, $82k LTD).  His recent research has centered on the history and present developments of African religions.

• The Barack Obama Phenomenon: Politics, Symbol, and Reality - Ama Mazama and Molefi Kete AsantePART ONE: SEE HOW BARACK OBAMA RAN: THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCYDeracializing Obama: White Voters and the 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Race - David. J. Andersen and Jane JunnSouthern Strategy 2.0: Conservatives, White Voters, and the Election of Barack Obama - Thomas EdgeTurning Out the Center: Racial Politics and African Agency in the Obama Era - Phillip S. Howard An Immigrant′s Dream and the Audacity of Hope: The 2004 Convention Addresses of Barack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger - Babak Elahi and Grant Cos PartPART TWO: THE ICONIC OBAMA: CONTROLLING THE IDENTITY OF A PRESIDENTObama’s Political Philosophy: Pragmatism, Politics, and the University of Chicago - Bart SchultzBarack Obama and the Politics of Blackness - Ron WaltersBarack Obama’s Faustian Bargain and the Fight for America’s Racial Soul - Christopher J. Metzler PART THREE: THE LESSONS OF THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONFacing Barack Hussein Obama: Race, Globalization, and Transnational America - Radhika Parameswaran The Audacity of Hope - Dewey ClaytonObama and the White Vote - Todd Donovan PartPART FOUR: THE LIMITS OF GOVERNANCE IN OBAMA’S ADMINISTRATIONObama: The New Contours of Power - Jerry Harris and Carl DavidsonBarack Obama and the Dilemma of Power: An Africological Observation - Molefi Kete Asante Obama’s Whiteness - Shawn Michelle Smith Perceptions of Leadership and the Challenge of Obama’s Blackness - Charlton D. McIlwainBarack Obama and the Politics of Race: The Myth of Postracism in America - Martell Teasley and David IkardThe Reality of American Life Has Strayed From its Myths: Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope and the Discourse of the American Reclamation Jeremiad - Willie J. Harrell, Jr.

3 chapters of the book seem to be in line with the course′s general outline. Yet, being focused too much on USA and racial agency, book is a little bit out of scope to be fully adopted as required reading for university course in Sweden.