David H Ikard, Martell Lee Teasley

Nation of Cowards

Black Activism in Barack Obama's Post-Racial America

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Produktbeschreibung

They urge the black community to challenge the social terms on which it copes with oppression, including acts of self-imposed victimization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9780253006288
• ISBN-10: 0253006287
• Artikelnr.: 35331213

Autorenporträt

David H. Ikard is Associate Professor of English at Florida State University and author of Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism. His blog "Nation of Cowards" (nationofcowards.blogspot.com) takes up contemporary racial topics and engages a wider intellectual and activist community. Martell Lee Teasley is Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Work at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Is America a Nation of Cowards or Has Attorney General Eric
Holder Lost His Mind?
1. The Teaching Moment that Never Was: Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama, and
the Post-Racial Dilemma
2. "I Know What's in His Heart": Enlightened Exceptionalism and the Problem
with Using Barack Obama as the Racial Litmus Test for Black Progress and
Achievement
3. The Audacity of Reverend Wright: Speaking Truth to Power in the 21st
Century
4. Setting the Record Straight: Why Barack Obama and America Cannot Afford
to Ignore a Black Agenda
5. Pull Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps: Barack Obama, the Black Poor, and
the Problems of Racial Common Sense
Index