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Political Power and Social Theory.
This volume of Political Power and Social Theory will be among the first to critically assess the meanings of race and religion in America under the Obama administration, and features controversial chapters by Phil Gorksi of Yale University and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva of Duke University, among others.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bradford :
Emerald Group Pub.,
2011.
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| Colección: | Political Power and Social Theory, 22.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Rethinking Obama; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Senior Editorial Board; Student Editorial Board; Editorial Statement; Editors' Introduction; PART I: OBAMA AND THE POLITICS OF RACE; Introduction: Examining, debating, and ranting about the Obama phenomenon; American racial politics ''for real'' since Obama was elected president; The contributions in this section; Stepping up to the table: Where do we go from herequest; Notes; References; The black presidential non-slave: Genocide and the present tense of racial slavery.
- Introduction: Retelling the racial present tenseAssessing the racial story: Black president as (Black) non-slave; The time-lapsing logics of (Antiblack) racial genocide; Revisiting ''Genocide''; Slavery's abolition and the carceral logic of genocide; Prison regime as (Proto- )genocide; Conclusion: From ''Post-Civil Rights'' to white reconstruction; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Barack Obama's community organizing as new black politics; The new black politics; Community organizing as political maturation; Reverend Jeremiah Wright and black solidarity; Conclusion; Acknowledgments.
- The tea party and President ObamaA changing America and the emergence of the tea party; Discussion and conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Multivariate ordered logit regression results; The sweet enchantment of color blindness in black face: Explaining the ''miracle, '' debating the politics, and suggesting a way for hope to be ''for real'' in America; ''We are all mad here.'' On madness in the American wonderland; ''Down the rabbit hole'': The real question posed by Obama's victory; ''Begin at the beginninghellips'': The context that allowed the ''miracle''
- '''Who are youquest' said the caterpillar'': On the meaning of Obama's politics'''Wellexcl what are youquest' said the pigeon. 'I can see you're trying to invent somethingexcl''': My predictions during the campaign and my scorecard; '''Tut, tut, childexcl' said the duchess. 'everything's got a moral, if only you can find it''': Let social justice not die at the altar of ''pragmatism'' and color blindness; Notes; References; PART II: SCHOLARLY CONTROVERSY: THE CIVIL RELIGION OF BARACK OBAMA; Barack Obama and civil religion; What is civil religionquest.