Nation of cowards
Ikard, David, 1972-
Nation of cowards black activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America / [electronic resource] : David Ikard and Martell Teasley. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (176 p.) - Blacks in the diaspora . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
9780253007018 0253007011
Obama, Barack--Relations with African Americans.
Race awareness--United States.
Post-racialism--United States.
African Americans--Economic conditions--21st century.
African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
African Americans--Politics and government--21st century.
United States--Politics and government--2009-
United States--Race relations--Political aspects
Electronic books.
E185.86 / .I39 2012
305.8/009730905
Nation of cowards black activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America / [electronic resource] : David Ikard and Martell Teasley. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (176 p.) - Blacks in the diaspora . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
9780253007018 0253007011
Obama, Barack--Relations with African Americans.
Race awareness--United States.
Post-racialism--United States.
African Americans--Economic conditions--21st century.
African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
African Americans--Politics and government--21st century.
United States--Politics and government--2009-
United States--Race relations--Political aspects
Electronic books.
E185.86 / .I39 2012
305.8/009730905