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The new Black : what has changed and what has not with race in America / edited by Kenneth W. Mack and Guy-Uriel Charles.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Politics and government.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History.
- Civil rights movements.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The New Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The election and reelection of Barack Obama ushered in a litany of controversial perspectives about the contemporary state of American race relations. In this incisive volume, some of the country's most celebrated and original thinkers on race?historians, sociologists, writers, scholars, and cultural critics?reexamine the familiar framework of the civil rights movement with an eye to redirecting our understanding of the politics of race.Through provocative and insightful essays, The New Black challenges contemporary images of black families, offers a contentious critique of the relevance of pr
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The new Black and the death of the civil rights ideal / Kenneth W. Mack & Guy-Uriel Charles
- Political race and the new Black / Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres
- D©j© vu all over again? : racial contestation in the Obama era / Taeku Lee
- Immigration and the civil rights agenda / Cristina M. Rodr©guez
- The president and the justice : two ways of looking at a post-Black man / Paul Butler
- The racial metamorphosis of justice Kennedy and the future of civil rights law / Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
- The right kind of family : silences in a civil rights narrative / Jonathan Scott Holloway
- John Hope Franklin : the man and his works / Orlando Patterson
- The puzzles of racial extremism in a "post-racial" world / Jeannine Bell
- An officer and a gentleman / Angela Onwuachi-Willig
- Obama is no king : the fracturing of the Black prophetic tradition / Glenn C. Loury
- Free Black men / Elizabeth Alexander
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781595587992
- 1595587993
- OCLC:
- 853359914
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