The persistence of the color line : racial politics and the Obama presidency
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New York : Vintage Books, 2012.
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9780307455550, 0307455556
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New York : Vintage Books, 2012.
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322 pages ; 22 cm
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9780307455550, 0307455556

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-303) and index.
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"Timely--as the 2012 presidential election nears--and controversial for its bracing iconoclasm, The Persistence of the Color Line is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial politics and the Obama presidency. Renowned for his cool reason vis--̉vis the pitfalls and clichš of racial discourse, Randall Kennedy--former clerk to late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Harvard professor of law, and author of the New York Times bestseller Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Kennedy--gives us shrewd and keen essays on the complex relationship between "the first black president" and his African-American constituency. The Persistence of the Colorline tackles hot-button issues: the nature of racial opposition to Obama; whether Obama has any special responsibility to African-Americans; the increasing irrelevance of traditional racial politics and the consequences thereof; electoral politics and cultural chauvinism; black patriotism and its antithesis (essentialism and rebellion); differences between Obama's presentation of himself to blacks and whites and the challenges posed by the dream of a post-racial society; the far from simple symbolism of Obama as leader of the Joshua generation in a country that has elected only three black senators and two black governors. As the National Law Journal puts it: "Randall Kennedy is doing the smartest work in the area of race." Here, in The Persistence of the Color Line, Kennedy--eschewing the critical excesses of both the left and the right--offers a gimlet eyed view of Obama's triumphs and travails, his strengths and weaknesses, as they pertain to the troubled history of race in America"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kennedy, R. (2012). The persistence of the color line: racial politics and the Obama presidency (First edition.). Vintage Books.

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Kennedy, Randall, 1954-. 2012. The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency. Vintage Books.

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Kennedy, Randall, 1954-. The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency Vintage Books, 2012.

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Kennedy, Randall. The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency First edition., Vintage Books, 2012.

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