Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: THE ELECTION
  • 1. Toward a Multiracial Democracy: The Jackson and Obama Contributions
  • 2. Analysis of Black American Voters in Barack Obamaâ€?s Victory
  • 3. Dead Certain: The Election of Barack Obama and Its Implications for Racial Politics
  • 4. What Trumped?: Race, Class, Gender, Generation, the Economy, and the 2008 Elections
  • 5. Race, the Presidency, and Obamaâ€?s First Year
  • 6. Under Press-ure: Overcoming the Media and Its Mavens?
  • 7. Opportunity Costs: The Impact of the 2008 Campaign on the Legacy of William Jefferson ClintonPART TWO: CULTURE
  • 8. Lest We Forget: An open letter to my sisters who are brave
  • 9. The Ambivalent Embrace of Barack Obama: The Ethical Significance and Social Apprehension of Black
  • 10. Obama, Black Religion, and the Reverend Wright Controversy
  • 11. Race, Religion, and the Race for the White House
  • 12. The New Negro in African American Politics: Barack Obama and the Politics of Racial Representati
  • 13. Barack Obamaâ€?s Anomalous Relationship with the Hip-Hop Community14. Too Black and Too Strong: First Lady Michelle Obama
  • PART THREE: POLICY
  • 15. President Obama: Freedom Democrat or Neoliberal?
  • 16. Multicultural Hegemony: Globalization and the Obama Doctrine
  • 17. An Affirmative Act?: Barack Obama and the Past, Present, and Future of Race-Conscious Remedies
  • Epilogue: The Legacy of the Obama Era: A New Electoral Majority?
  • Contributors
  • Index