The persistence of the color line : racial politics and the Obama presidency
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The persistence of the color line : racial politics and the Obama presidency
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- The persistence of the color line : racial politics and the Obama presidency
- Title remainder
- racial politics and the Obama presidency
- Statement of responsibility
- Randall Kennedy
- Subject
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- truePolitics and global affairs -- Political figures
- trueSociety and culture -- Race
- trueRace awareness -- United States -- History
- trueAfrican Americans -- Political activity
- trueObama, Barack
- trueRacism
- United States -- Social conditions
- Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- African Americans -- Politics and government
- truePresidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008
- trueRacism in politics and government -- History
- trueUnited States -- Race relations | Political aspects | History
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008
- trueUnited States -- Politics and government
- United States -- Race relations | Political aspects | History
- trueUnited States -- Social conditions
- Race awareness -- United States -- History
- Obama, Barack
- United States -- Politics and government
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Timely--as the 2012 presidential election nears--and controversial for its bracing iconoclasm, The Persistence of the Color Line is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial politics and the Obama presidency. Renowned for his cool reason vis--vis the pitfalls and clichs of racial discourse, Randall Kennedy--former clerk to late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Harvard professor of law, and author of the New York Times bestseller Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Kennedy--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. As the National Law Journal puts it: "Randall Kennedy is doing the smartest work in the area of race." Here, in The Persistence of the Color Line, 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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- DLC
- Dewey number
- 973.932092
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.615
- LC item number
- .K376 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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