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Nation of cowards : black activism in Barack Obama's post-racial America / David H. Ikard and Martell Lee Teasley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- 1972- Ikard.
- Series:
- Blacks in the diaspora.
- Blacks in the diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obama, Barack--Relations with African Americans.
- Obama, Barack.
- African Americans--Politics and government--21st century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
- African Americans--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Post-racialism--United States.
- Post-racialism.
- Race awareness--United States.
- Race awareness.
- United States--Race relations--Political aspects.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--2009-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Edition:
- 1版.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In a speech from which Nation of Cowards derives its title, Attorney General Eric Holder argued forcefully that Americans today need to talk more-not less-about racism. This appeal for candid talk about race exposes the paradox of Barack Obama's historic rise to the US presidency and the ever-increasing social and economic instability of African American communities. David H. Ikard and Martell Lee Teasley maintain that such a conversation can take place only with passionate and organized pressure from black Americans, and that neither Obama nor any political figure is likely to be in the fo
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613813091
- 9781282241978
- 1282241974
- 9780253007018
- 0253007011
- OCLC:
- 821733311
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