Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams: The Age of Obama and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9781554813162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str.

Julius Bailey

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Silver medalist for the IPPY award for Current Events in 2016 Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams is a moral call, a harkening and quickening of the spirit, a demand for recognition for those whose voices are whispered. Julius Bailey straddles the fence of social-science research and philosophy, using empirical data and current affairs to direct his empathy-laced discourse. He turns his eye to President Obama and his critics, racism, income inequality, poverty, and xenophobia, guided by a prophetic thread that calls like-minded visionaries and progressives to action. The book is an honest look at the current state of our professed city on a hill and the destruction left on the darker sides of town.

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Foreword by Rev. Dr. Michael L. Pfleger
Acknowledgments

Introduction: “I, Too, Sing America”
Chapter 1: “I Can’t Breathe!” “So What! F✻✻✻ Your Breath”
Chapter 2: Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America
Chapter 3: Racism: The Long March to Freedom and the New Jim Crow
Chapter 4: Xenophobia: America Inside Out
Chapter 5: Poverty: A Load Too Heavy to Bear
Chapter 6: Income Inequality: The Unbridgeable Gap
Chapter 7: Repositioning the Moral Arc

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