The Speech : Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" /

The Speech : Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" / Edited by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. - New York : Bloomsbury, 2009. - 261 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes text of Barack Obama's "A more perfect union" speech, delivered Mar. 18, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

Chloroform Morning Joe! -- Wright Stuff, Wrong Time, Part I/Derrick Z. Jackson -- Obama and the Generational Challenge/Omar H. Ali -- Living the Dream/Keli Goff -- Black Like Barack/Joan Morgan -- The Audacity of Post-Racism/Adam Mansbach --Between Expediency and Conviction:What We Mean When We Say "Post-Racial"/Bakari Kitwana -- His Grandmother, My Father, Your Uncle.../Connie Schultz -- Nuanced Genius, Part II/Derrick Z. Jackson -- L'Effet Obama: Diversity and "A More Perfect Republic" / Dominic Thomas -- Why Obama's Race Speech Is a Model for the Political Framing of Race and Poverty/William Julius Wilson -- A Belief in the Unseen: A Nation Still at Risk/Gilman W. Whiting -- A More Perfect (High-Tech) Lynching: Obama, the Press, and Jeremiah Wright/ Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. -- "It's been a Long Time Comin, but Our Change Done Come"/Geneva Smitherman -- Barack in the Dirty, Dirty South/Alice Randall -- Mutt on CP Time, Discipline of Malcolm, Part III/Derrick Z. Jackson -- The Speech: A More Perfect Union/Senator Barack Obama.

9781596916678 (hardcover) 1596916672 (hardcover)

2009006603


Obama, Barack--Political and social views.
Obama, Barack--Oratory.
Obama, Barack, 1961-


Speeches, addresses, etc., American.


United States--Race relations.
United States--Social conditions--21st century.

002 E 184 / S742 2009

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