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The persistence of the color line : racial politics and the Obama presidency
- Title
- The persistence of the color line : racial politics and the Obama presidency / Randall Kennedy.
- Author
- Kennedy, Randall, 1954-
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- 322 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- United States > Social conditions
- United States > President (2009-2017 : Obama)
- Racism > Political aspects > United States > History
- African Americans > Politics and government
- Presidents > United States > Election > 2008
- Black author
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections
- United States > Politics and government
- Race awareness > United States > History
- Obama, Barack
- United States > Race relations > Political aspects > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-303) and index.
- Call Number
- Sc D 11-1656
- ISBN
- 9780307377890
- 030737789X
- LCCN
- 2010052056
- OCLC
- 2010052056
- Author
- Kennedy, Randall, 1954-
- Title
- The persistence of the color line : racial politics and the Obama presidency / Randall Kennedy.
- Imprint
- New York : Pantheon, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-303) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 11-1656