Not Even Past - Barack Obama and the Burden of Race

Zusatztext "Thomas Sugrue's fine book offers a cogent and powerful explanation for [the] mismatch between expectations and reality. He situates Barack Obama's personal racial and political odyssey in a richly textured history of race, class, and politics in the late twentieth century, and in Sugrue's deft and elegant prose, Obama's political biography becomes a lens through which American politics and race relations come into clearer view. . . . [T]he persistence of racial inequality in an apparently "post-racial" world--that is perhaps the most profound challenge facing American politics and society, and Sugrue's book is an essential guide to those who seek to answer that challenge." ---Robert C. Lieberman, Political Science Quarterly Informationen zum Autor Thomas J. Sugrue is the David Boies Professor of History and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North and The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton). Klappentext Barack Obama! in his campaign speech discussing race in America today! quoted William Faulkner: "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact! it isn't even past." Now an award-winning historian examines the paradox of race in America and how the president intends to deal with it. Zusammenfassung Does Obama's presidency signal the end of race in American life? This title examines the paradox of race in Barack Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it. It assesses the culture and politics of race in the age of Obama, and of our prospects for a postracial America.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas J. Sugrue
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2010
• EAN: 9780691137308
• ISBN: 978-0-691-13730-8
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: The Lawrence Stone Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Black & Asian Studies, Social discrimination and social justice, Relating to African American / Black American people