What Obama means : --for our culture, our politics, our future / Jabari Asim.

By:

Asim, Jabari, 1962-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : William Morrow, c2009.Edition: 1. edDescription: xii, 223 p . ; 22 cmISBN:

0061711330
9780061711336

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DDC classification:

973.932

LOC classification:

002 E 907 A832w 2009

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Contents:

Prologue: Convergence -- What cool can do -- Love and baseball -- At the threshold -- Leading men -- Figures of speech -- Brothers from other planets -- Fired up -- The tattered veil -- The new Black, the new America.

Summary: Summary: Asim, author of the acclaimed "The N Word," provides the context needed to understand what the Obama presidency means to Americans of all backgrounds, showing how African American performers, athletes, rhetoricians, and leaders laid the groundwork for Obama and how Obama turned the old civil-rights model of African American leadership on its head.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Recursos Regionales	Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso)	002 E 907 A832w 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	1	Available		00000074220

Summary: Asim, author of the acclaimed "The N Word," provides the context needed to understand what the Obama presidency means to Americans of all backgrounds, showing how African American performers, athletes, rhetoricians, and leaders laid the groundwork for Obama and how Obama turned the old civil-rights model of African American leadership on its head.

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