The persistence of the color line : racial politics and the Obama presidency /
"Timely--as the 2012 presidential election nears--and controversial for its bracing iconoclasm, The Persistence of the Color Line is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial politics and the Obama presidency. Renowned for his cool reason vis--̉vis the pitfalls and... Full description
| Main Author: | Kennedy, Randall, 1954- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York : Vintage Books, 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Contents: | The Obama inaugural -- Obama courts black America -- Obama and white America : "why can't they all be like him?" -- The race card in the campaign of 2008 -- Reverend Wright and my father : reflections on blacks and patriotism -- The racial politics of the Sotomayor confirmation -- Addressing race "the Obama way" -- Obama and the future of American race relations. |