The persistence of the color line racial politics and the Obama presidency
"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 cli...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Kennedy, Randall, |d 1954- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The persistence of the color line : |b racial politics and the Obama presidency / |c Randall Kennedy. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Pantheon, |c 2011. | ||
| 300 | |a 322 p. ; |c 22 cm. | ||
| 520 | |a "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 clichš 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"-- |b Provided by publisher. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans |x Politics and government. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Obama, Barack. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Presidents |z United States |x Election |y 2008. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a United States |b President (2009- : Obama) |
| 650 | 0 | |a Racism |x Political aspects |z United States |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Race awareness |z United States |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Race relations |x Political aspects |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Politics and government. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Social conditions. | |
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