Nation of cowards [electronic resource] : black activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America / David H. Ikard and Martell Lee Teasley.
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TextSeries: Blacks in the diasporaPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.Description: x, 160 pSubject(s): - Obama, Barack -- Relations with African Americans
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 21st century
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- Post-racialism -- United States
- Race awareness -- United States
- United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-
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- E185.86 .I39 2012eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : is America a nation of cowards or has Attorney General Eric Holder lost his mind? -- The teaching moment that never was : Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama, and the post-racial dilemma -- "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 -- The audacity of Reverend Wright : speaking truth to power in the twenty-first century -- Setting the record straight : why Barack Obama and America cannot afford to ignore a Black agenda -- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps : Barack Obama, the Black poor, and the problems of racial common sense thinking.
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