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090 $aE185.615$b.K376 2012
100 1 $aKennedy, Randall,$d1954-
245 14 $aThe persistence of the color line :$bracial politics and the Obama presidency /$cRandall Kennedy.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bVintage Books,$c2012.
300 $a322 p. ;$c22 cm.
520 $a"Timely--as the 2012 presidential election nears--and controversial for its bracing iconoclasm, The Persistence of the Color Line is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial politics and the Obama presidency. Renowned for his cool reason vis--̉vis the pitfalls and clichš of racial discourse, Randall Kennedy--former clerk to late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Harvard professor of law, and author of the New York Times bestseller Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Kennedy--gives us shrewd and keen essays on the complex relationship between "the first black president" and his African-American constituency. The Persistence of the Colorline tackles hot-button issues: the nature of racial opposition to Obama; whether Obama has any special responsibility to African-Americans; the increasing irrelevance of traditional racial politics and the consequences thereof; electoral politics and cultural chauvinism; black patriotism and its antithesis (essentialism and rebellion); differences between Obama's presentation of himself to blacks and whites and the challenges posed by the dream of a post-racial society; the far from simple symbolism of Obama as leader of the Joshua generation in a country that has elected only three black senators and two black governors. As the National Law Journal puts it: "Randall Kennedy is doing the smartest work in the area of race." Here, in The Persistence of the Color Line, Kennedy--eschewing the critical excesses of both the left and the right--offers a gimlet eyed view of Obama's triumphs and travails, his strengths and weaknesses, as they pertain to the troubled history of race in America"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [281]-303) and index.
505 0 $aThe Obama inaugural -- Obama courts black America -- Obama and white America : "why can't they all be like him?" -- The race card in the campaign of 2008 -- Reverend Wright and my father : reflections on blacks and patriotism -- The racial politics of the Sotomayor confirmation -- Addressing race "the Obama way" -- Obama and the future of American race relations.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government.
600 10 $aObama, Barack.
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xElection$y2008.
650 0 $aRacism$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aRace awareness$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xPolitical aspects$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions.
852 00 $bmil$hE185.615$i.K376 2012