ISBN-13: 9780415813945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str.
ISBN-13: 9780415813945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str.
The 2008 presidential election was celebrated around the world as a seminal moment in US political and racial history. White liberals and other progressives framed the election through the prism of change, while previously acknowledged demographic changes were hastily heralded as the dawn of a 'post-racial' America. However, by 2011, much of the post-election idealism had dissipated in the wake of an on-going economic and financial crisis, escalating wars in Afghanistan and Libya, and the rise of the right-wing Tea Party movement. By placing Obama in the historical context of US race relations, this edited book interrogates the idealized and progressive view of American society advanced by much of the mainstream literature on Obama.