John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the politics of ethnic incorporation and avoidance
By: Robert C. Smith
Series: SUNY series in African American studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781438445595
Subjects: Politics and government; Irish Americans; Catholics; Presidents; Minorities; Election; African Americans; Political participation; Political activity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding ethnicity and ethnic incorporation in the United States; title: The subordination of Irish Catholics and African Americans; title: Identity, solidarity and culture : Irish Catholics and African Americans; title: Boston and Chicago and the rise of Kennedy and Obama; title: Ethnic men : the Al Smith and Jesse Jackson campaigns; title: The incorporation of the Catholic Irish, and the semi-incorporation of African Americans; title: Kennedy and Obama : charisma, character and ethnic identity; title: Religion and the election of 1960; title: Race and the election of 2008; title: The politics of ethnic avoidance in the Kennedy and Obama administrations.