The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency

ISBN-13: 9780307455550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str.

Randall Kennedy

Opis

Renowned for his insightful, common-sense critiques of racial politics, Randall Kennedy gives us a shrewd and penetrating analysis of the complex relationship between the first black president and his African-American constituency.
Kennedy tackles such hot-button issues as the nature of racial opposition to Obama; whether Obama has a singular responsibility to African Americans; the differences in Obama s presentation of himself to blacks and to whites; the challenges posed by the dream of a post-racial society; the increasing irrelevance of a certain kind of racial politics and its consequences; the complex symbolism of Obama s achievement and his own obfuscations and evasions regarding racial justice.
Eschewing the critical excesses of both the left and the right, Kennedy offers an incisive view of Obama s triumphs and travails, his strengths and weaknesses, as they pertain to the troubled history of race in America."