Optimism at All Costs: Black Attitudes, Activism, and Advancement in Obama's America

ISBN-13: 9781625343277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 168 str.

Lessie B. Branch

Opis

In the wake of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential victory, most Americans believed that race relations would improve. Lessie B. Branch confronts the tension between black Americans' economic realities and the hope many felt for the future, looking at survey data alongside the rhetoric of leading black figures, including President Obama.