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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 |
Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (174 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.8/009730905 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations Political aspects |
United States Politics and government 2009- | |
Altri autori: | TeasleyMartell L |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Nation of cowards |
ISBN: | 1-282-24197-4 |
9786613813091 | |
0-253-00701-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910791933403321 |
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