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Author:

Ikard, David, 1972-

Title:

Nation of cowards : black activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America / David Ikard and Martell Lee Teasley.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

x, 160 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Politics and government--21st century.
African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
African Americans--Economic conditions--21st century.
Obama, Barack--Relations with African Americans.
United States--Political aspects.--Political aspects.
United States--Politics and government--2009-
Post-racialism--United States.
Race awareness--United States.

Other Authors:

Teasley, Martell L.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora

ISBN:

0253007011 (eb)
9780253007018 (eb)
0253006287 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253006288 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)768169533

LCCN:

2012017797

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)