Nation of Cowards - Black Activism in Barack Obama''s Post-Racial America

Informationen zum Autor David H. Ikard is Associate Professor of English at Florida State University and author of Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism . His blog "Nation of Cowards" (nationofcowards.blogspot.com) takes up contemporary racial topics and engages a wider intellectual and activist community. Martell Lee Teasley is Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Work at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Klappentext They urge the black community to challenge the social terms on which it copes with oppression, including acts of self-imposed victimization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Is America a Nation of Cowards or Has Attorney General Eric Holder Lost His Mind? 1. The Teaching Moment that Never Was: Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama, and the Post-Racial Dilemma 2. "I Know What's in His Heart": Enlightened Exceptionalism and the Problem with Using Barack Obama as the Racial Litmus Test for Black Progress and Achievement 3. The Audacity of Reverend Wright: Speaking Truth to Power in the 21st Century 4. Setting the Record Straight: Why Barack Obama and America Cannot Afford to Ignore a Black Agenda 5. Pull Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps: Barack Obama, the Black Poor, and the Problems of Racial Common Sense Index

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• Authors: David H Ikard, David H. Ikard, David H. Teasley Ikard, David H./ Teasley Ikard, Ikard David H, Martell Lee Teasley, Teasley Martell Lee
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2012
• EAN: 9780253006288
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00628-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardco; Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardco
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)