TY - BOOK AU - Ikard,David AU - Teasley,Martell L. ED - Project Muse. TI - Nation of cowards: black activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America T2 - Blacks in the diaspora SN - 9780253007018 AV - E185.86 .I39 2012 U1 - 305.8/009730905 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - Obama, Barack KW - Race awareness KW - United States KW - Post-racialism KW - African Americans KW - Economic conditions KW - 21st century KW - Social conditions KW - Politics and government KW - 2009- KW - Race relations KW - Political aspects KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253007018/ ER -