Jon Jeter, Robert Pierre

A Day Late and a Dollar Short (eBook, ePUB)

High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's ""Post-Racial"" America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Could this be the final victory for civil rights, or the first of many to come?

When Henry Louis Gates spoke out about his ridiculous arrest, he stated a truth few Americans?including President Obama?are eager to discuss: there is no such thing as a post-racial America. When it comes to race, the United States has come a long way, but not far enough and not fast enough. Every day, we cope with casual racism, myriad indignities, institutional obstacles, post-racial nonsense, and peers bent on self-destruction. The powers that be, meanwhile, always seem to arrive with their apologies and redress a day late and a dollar short.

This book takes a close look at the lives of African-Americans from diverse backgrounds as Obama?s victory comes to play a personal role in each of their lives. Every tale delves into the complex issues we will have to deal with going forward:

• The many challenges young black men face, such as subtle persistent racism
• The stagnation of blacks vis ? vis whites
• Widespread black participation in the military despite widespread anti-war sentiments
• The decline of unions even as organized labor becomes the primary vehicle for black progress
• The challenges of interracial families
• The lack of good schools or healthcare for the poor
• The inability of well-off blacks to lift up others

Barack Obama will deliver his first official State of the Union address in January 2010, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short will deliver an altogether different picture of the way things really under the first black president.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470570494
• Artikelnr.: 50004124

Autorenporträt

Robert E. Pierre, a reporter and editor at the Washington Post, has covered politics and social issues at the Post for nearly two decades. He is a former Chicago bureau chief and a key figure in the Post's 2006 award-winning series, "Being a Black Man."

Jon Jeter has served as a producer for This American Life on NPR and as a Bureau Chief for the Washington Post. He is the author of Flat Broke in the Free Market.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1 Daisy Mae on the Bayou: The Past Is Still
with Us. 2. Made in America: Union Organizing in Chicago. 3. He Doesn't See
What We See: Diop's Protest in St. Petersburg. 4. Where the Grass is
Greener: Linda in the Promised Land. 5. Casualty of War: Tee Green in
Baghdad. 6. White Is Not an Abstract Concept: Angela's Daughters in
Appalachia. 7. Little Men: Jewel and Launnie in New Orleans. 8. Dandelions:
Eddie's Freedom in D.C. 9. Watermelon Man: Cecil, Jon, and Ryan In
Indianapolis. 10. The Front Man: Lee Moves from South Africa to Brooklyn.
Notes. Index.