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Kennedy, Randall, 1954-
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Obama, Barack.
United States. President (2009-2017 : Obama)
Blacks -- Politics and government.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008.
Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
Race awareness -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History.
United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- Social conditions.
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Kennedy, Randall, 1954-
Obama, Barack.
United States. President (2009-2017 : Obama)
Blacks -- Politics and government.
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008.
Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
Race awareness -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History.
United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- Social conditions.
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The persistence of the color line : racial politics and the Obama presidency / Randall Kennedy.
by
Kennedy, Randall, 1954-
Pantheon, c2011.
Call #:
973.932 K36p
Subjects
Obama, Barack.
United
States
. President (2009-2017 : Obama)
Blacks
--
Politics and government.
Presidents
--
United
States
--
Election
--
2008.
Racism
--
Political
aspects
--
United
States
--
History
.
Race awareness
--
United
States
--
History
.
United
States
--
Race relations
--
Political
aspects
--
History
.
United
States
--
Politics and government.
United
States
--
Social conditions.
ISBN:
9780307377890 (hardback)
030737789X (hardback)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
322 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Obama inaugural
--
Obama courts black America
--
Obama and white America : "why can't they all be like him?"
--
The race card in the campaign of 2008
--
Reverend Wright and my father : reflections on blacks and patriotism
--
The racial politics of the Sotomayor confimation
--
Addressing race "the Obama way"
--
Obama and the future of American race relations.
Summary:
The author gives us shrewd and keen essays on the complex relationship between "the first black president" and his African-American constituency. The Persistence of the Colorline tackles hot-button issues: the nature of racial opposition to Obama; whether Obama has any special responsibility to African-Americans; the increasing irrelevance of traditional racial politics and the consequences thereof; electoral politics and cultural chauvinism; black patriotism and its antithesis (essentialism and rebellion); differences between Obama's presentation of himself to blacks and whites and the challenges posed by the dream of a post-racial society; the far from simple symbolism of Obama as leader of the Joshua generation in a country that has elected only three black senators and two black governors. Randall Kennedy, eschewing the critical excesses of both the left and the right, offers a gimlet eyed view of Obama's triumphs and travails, his strengths and weaknesses, as they pertain to the troubled
history
of race in America.
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