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Author:

Cohen, Cathy J., 1961-

Title:

Democracy remixed / Cathy J. Cohen.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

viii, 281 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African American youth--Social conditions.
African American youth--Political activity.
United States--Race relations.
United States--Politics and government.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"My petition": black youth and the promise of democratic citizenship -- "Gangsta rap made me do it": Bill Cosby, Don Imus, and black moral panics -- "Baby mama": black love, black deviance, and the sexual politics of morality -- "Minority report": Kanye West, Barack Obama, and political alienation / with Jamila Celestine Michener -- "Fight the power": from Jena to the White House -- "My president is black": Barack Obama and the postracial illusion -- Epilogue "a change is gonna come": policy and politics.

ISBN:

0195378008 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780195378009 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)502158367

LCCN:

2010000428

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)