Race in the age of Obama

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cunnigen, Donald, Bruce, Marino A. (Marino Anton)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2010.
• Σειρά: Research in race and ethnic relations ; 16.
• Θέματα: Social Science > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.; Social Science > Ethnic Studies > General.; Social Science > Discrimination & Race Relations.; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies.; Ethnic studies.; Race relations.; United States > Race relations.

This volume provides the first in-depth examination of the impact of the key sociological issues faced by the new Obama Administration and explores conventional topics on race and ethnic relations as well as delves into new areas of intellectual inquiry regarding the changing scope of race relations...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction / Marino Bruce, Donald Cunnigen
• Obama and Africa / Robert E. Washington
• 'He loves strong, intelligent women. They're his Kryptonite' : Michelle Obama, gender, race and the black press / Michael C. Thornton
• Outsiders within the higher circles : two first ladies as cultural icons in a racialized politics of difference / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
• Mom-in-chief : community othermothering and Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the people's house / Deborah K. King
• The management of social theory : Obama and the American presidency in the age of segregated diversity / John Sibley Butler
• Struggling to educate its own : the Obama college attainment challenge and the city of Philadelphia / D. Crystal Byndloss
• Racial differences in the perception of racial equality in the Obama era / Melvin E. Thomas, Cedric Herring, Hayward Derrick Horton
• Social justice in the age of Obama / Wornie L. Reed
• Has change really come to America? A black feminist critique of Barack Obama's social justice agenda / Yvonne D. Newsome
• Campaigning for Obama and the politics of race : the case of California, Texas, and beyond / Nadia Y. Kim
• Race threads and race threats : how Obama/race-discourse among conservatives changed through the 2008 presidential campaign / Adam Murphree, Deirdre A. Royster
• The roots of anti-Obama rhetoric / Chip Berlet
• Epilogue / Marino Bruce, Donald Cunnigen.