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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817399203321

Autore

Ikard David <1972->

Titolo

Nation of cowards : black activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America / / David H. Ikard and Martell Lee Teasley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-282-24197-4

9786613813091

0-253-00701-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Collana

Blacks in the diaspora

Altri autori (Persone)

TeasleyMartell L

Disciplina

305.8/009730905

Soggetti

African Americans - Politics and government - 21st century

African Americans - Social conditions - 21st century

African Americans - Economic conditions - 21st century

Post-racialism - United States

Race awareness - United States

United States Race relations Political aspects

United States Politics and government 2009-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : is America a nation of cowards or has Attorney General Eric Holder lost his mind? -- The teaching moment that never was : Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama, and the post-racial dilemma -- "I know what's in his heart" : enlightened exceptionalism and the problem with using Barack Obama as the racial litmus test for Black progress and achievement -- The audacity of Reverend Wright : speaking truth to power in the twenty-first century -- Setting the record straight : why Barack Obama and America cannot afford to ignore a Black agenda -- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps : Barack Obama, the Black poor, and the problems of racial common sense thinking.

Sommario/riassunto

In a speech from which Nation of Cowards derives its title, Attorney General Eric Holder argued forcefully that Americans today need to talk more-not less-about racism. This appeal for candid talk about race exposes the paradox of Barack Obama's historic rise to the US presidency and the ever-increasing social and economic instability of



African American communities. David H. Ikard and Martell Lee Teasley maintain that such a conversation can take place only with passionate and organized pressure from black Americans, and that neither Obama nor any political figure is likely to be in the fo