Nation of cowards
Subtitle: black activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America
By: David Ikard and Martell Teasley
Contributors: Teasley, Martell L.
Series: Blacks in the diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780253006288
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Post-racialism; Race awareness; Relations with African Americans; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Political aspects; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : is America a nation of cowards or has Attorney General Eric Holder lost his mind?; title: The teaching moment that never was : Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama, and the post-racial dilemma; title: "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; title: The audacity of Reverend Wright : speaking truth to power in the twenty-first century; title: Setting the record straight : why Barack Obama and America cannot afford to ignore a Black agenda; title: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps : Barack Obama, the Black poor, and the problems of racial common sense thinking.