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The new Black : what has changed and what has not with race in America /
The election and reelection of Barack Obama ushered in a litany of controversial perspectives about the contemporary state of American race relations. In this volume, some of the country's most celebrated and original thinkers on race, historians, sociologists, writers, scholars, and cultural c...
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New York :
New Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The new Black and the death of the civil rights ideal / Kenneth W. Mack & Guy-Uriel Charles
- Political race and the new Black / Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres
- Déjà vu all over again? : racial contestation in the Obama era / Taeku Lee
- Immigration and the civil rights agenda / Cristina M. Rodrøguez
- The president and the justice : two ways of looking at a post-Black man / Paul Butler
- The racial metamorphosis of justice Kennedy and the future of civil rights law / Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
- The right kind of family : silences in a civil rights narrative / Jonathan Scott Holloway
- John Hope Franklin : the man and his works / Orlando Patterson
- The puzzles of racial extremism in a "post-racial" world / Jeannine Bell
- An officer and a gentleman / Angela Onwuachi-Willig
- Obama is no king : the fracturing of the Black prophetic tradition / Glenn C. Loury
- Free Black men / Elizabeth Alexander
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Notes.