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2011., Penguin Press Call No: BLK 305.8 S532t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: One of the nation's most accomplished historians unravels the stories of three extraordinary families from different eras in American history to represent the complexity of race in America, and to force readers to rethink assumptions about race, racism, and civil rights.
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c2011., General, Pantheon Call No: BLK 973.932 K36p Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The author gives us shrewd and keen essays on the complex relationship between "the first black president" and his African-American constituency. The Persistence of the Colorline tackles hot-button issues: the nature of racial opposition to Obama; whether Obama has any special responsibility to African-Americans; the increasing irrelevance of traditional racial politics and the consequences thereof; electoral politics and cultural chauvinism; black patriotism and its antithesis (essentialism and rebellion); differences between Obama's presentation of himself to blacks and whites and the challenges posed by the dream of a post-racial society; the far from simple symbolism of Obama as leader of the Joshua generation in a country that has elected only three black senators and two black governors. Randall Kennedy, eschewing the critical excesses of both the left and the right, offers a gimlet eyed view of Obama's triumphs and travails, his strengths and weaknesses, as they pertain to the troubled history of race in America.
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2006., Metropolitan Books Call No: 305.5 M621t Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view Summary Note: "If there is one thing Americans agree on, it's the value of diversity. Our corporations vie for slots in the Diversity Top 50, our universities brag about minority recruiting, and every month is Somebody's History Month. But in this new book, Walter Benn Michaels argues that our enthusiastic celebration of "difference" masks and even contributes to our neglect of America's vast and growing economic divide. Affirmative action in schools has not made them more open, it's just guaranteed that the rich kids come in the appropriate colors. Diversity training in the workplace has not raised anybody's salary (except maybe the diversity trainers'), but it has guaranteed that when your job is out-sourced, your culture will be treated with respect." "Michaels takes on the many manifestations of our devotion to diversity, from companies apologizing for slavery, to a college president explaining why there aren't more women math professors, to the codes of conduct in the new "humane corporations." Our commitment to diversity is so complete, he argues, that we're no longer willing to take a stand against people with opposite religious or political beliefs, preferring to think of them as innocuously different rather than plain wrong. Looking at the books we read, the TV shows we watch, and the lawsuits we bring, Michaels shows that diversity has become everyone's sacred cow precisely because it offers a false vision of social justice, one that conveniently costs us nothing."--BOOK JACKET.
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"Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" : and other conversations about race[2003], Basic Books Call No: BLK 305.8 T221w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
