John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the politics of ethnic incorporation and avoidance [electronic resource] / Robert C. Smith.

By:

Smith, Robert Charles, 1947-

Contributor(s):

Project Muse

Material type: Text

TextSeries: SUNY series in African American studiesPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)ISBN:

9781438445618

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

323.173 23

LOC classification:

E184.A1 S6645 2013

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Contents:

Understanding ethnicity and ethnic incorporation in the United States -- The subordination of Irish Catholics and African Americans -- Identity, solidarity and culture : Irish Catholics and African Americans -- Boston and Chicago and the rise of Kennedy and Obama -- Ethnic men : the Al Smith and Jesse Jackson campaigns -- The incorporation of the Catholic Irish, and the semi-incorporation of African Americans -- Kennedy and Obama : charisma, character and ethnic identity -- Religion and the election of 1960 -- Race and the election of 2008 -- The politics of ethnic avoidance in the Kennedy and Obama administrations.

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