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Author:

Branch, Lessie B., author.

Title:

Optimism at all costs : Black attitudes, activism, and advancement in Obama's America / Lessie B. Branch.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xii, 141 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Obama, Barack--Influence.
African Americans--Attitudes.
African Americans--Economic conditions--21st century.
African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
United States--History--History--21st century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the paradoxical ebullience problem -- Post-racial theories of racial inequality -- Critical discourse analysis and narratives of race -- Ebullience and action in Black discourse -- Social lnowledge and Black "progress" -- Black America at the end of the Obama era -- Epilogue : the role of elite discourse in the Trump era and beyond.

ISBN:

1625343272
9781625343277
1625343264
9781625343260

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1012342826

LCCN:

2017050245

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)