LEADER 03610nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910791933403321 005 20230126204307.0 010 $a1-282-24197-4 010 $a9786613813091 010 $a0-253-00701-1 035 $a(CKB)2560000000089491 035 $a(EBL)816866 035 $a(OCoLC)821733311 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000701628 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11470869 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000701628 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10675273 035 $a(PQKB)11765896 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC816866 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18234 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL816866 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10583848 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL381309 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000089491 100 $a20120524d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNation of cowards$b[electronic resource] $eblack activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America /$fDavid H. Ikard and Martell Lee Teasley 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (174 p.) 225 1 $aBlacks in the diaspora 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-00628-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aIn a speech from which Nation of Cowards derives its title, Attorney General Eric Holder argued forcefully that Americans today need to talk more-not less-about racism. This appeal for candid talk about race exposes the paradox of Barack Obama's historic rise to the US presidency and the ever-increasing social and economic instability of African American communities. David H. Ikard and Martell Lee Teasley maintain that such a conversation can take place only with passionate and organized pressure from black Americans, and that neither Obama nor any political figure is likely to be in the fo 410 0$aBlacks in the diaspora. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government$y21st century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$y21st century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xEconomic conditions$y21st century 606 $aPost-racialism$zUnited States 606 $aRace awareness$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xPolitical aspects 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2009- 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aPost-racialism 615 0$aRace awareness 676 $a305.8/009730905 700 $aIkard$b David$f1972-$01475750 701 $aTeasley$b Martell L$01475751 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791933403321 996 $aNation of cowards$93690046 997 $aUNINA