1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465853503321

Autore

Ikard David <1972->

Titolo

Nation of cowards [[electronic resource] ] : 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

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

Electronic books.

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996386441803316

Autore

Bullinger Heinrich <1504-1575.>

Titolo

The golde[n] boke of christen matrimonye [[electronic resource] ] : moost necessary [and] profitable for all the[m], that entend to liue quietly and godlye in the Christen state of holy wedlock newly set forthe in English by Theodore Basille

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Imprinted at London, : In Botulphe lane at the sygne of the whyte Beare, by Ioh[a]n Mayler for Ioh[a]n Gough, Anno Domini. 1542]

Descrizione fisica

[18], 78, [4] leaves

Altri autori (Persone)

BeconThomas <1512-1567.>

CoverdaleMiles <1488-1568.>

Soggetti

Marriage - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A translation by Miles Coverdale of: Bullinger, Heinrich.  Der Christlich Eestand.

Theodore Basille = Thomas Becon.

Imprint from colophon.

Has both author's and Becon's prefaces.  Is of STC variant (b).

Running title reads: The christen state of matrimony.

Includes index.

Formerly STC 1724.

Identified as STC 1724 on UMI microfilm, reel 71.

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.



Sommario/riassunto

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