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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Kennedy, Randall, 1954-     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kennedy, Randall, 1954-       by title:      The persistence of t...       by call number:      973.932 K36p     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 973.932 K36p Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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