Nation of cowards : black activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America / / David H. Ikard and Martell Lee Teasley
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| Autore: |
Ikard David <1972->
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| Titolo: |
Nation of cowards : black activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America / / David H. Ikard and Martell Lee Teasley
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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
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| 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.: | 9910817399203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Blacks in the diaspora.