Blackwards : how Black leadership is returning America to the days of separate but equal / Ron Christie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christie, Ron, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--1964-.

African Americans.

History.

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans--Social conditions--2009-.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans--Politics and government.

African American leadership.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Race relations.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Social conditions.

United States--Politics and government--2009-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

290 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Contents:

The seeds of the Blacklash : when did America stray from equality under the law to a push for special rather than equal rights?

Affirmative action : how the vision for true equality under the law has retreated to the days of separate and unequal treatment in American society

So-called Black leaders creating a blacklash while pursuing a Black agenda

Candidate Obama and the manipulation of race : setting the stage for blacklash

A nation of cowards : how the Obama administration deepened racial divisions rather than unify the country

Of police officers acting stupidly and Black Panthers as "my people" : cementing the impression Blacks were entitled to special rather than equal rights in the Obama era

Playing the race card has created a blacklash in the Obama era

The path ahead to end the blacklash.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780312591472

0312591470

9781250013521

1250013526

OCLC:

778421536