The new Black : what has changed and what has not with race in America / edited by Kenneth W. Mack and Guy-Uriel Charles.

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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 critic...

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Other Authors:	Mack, Kenneth Walter, 1964- Charles, Guy-Uriel E., 1970- Rodríguez, Cristina M., 1973- Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- Holloway, Jonathan Scott
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Civil rights movements > United States > History. African Americans > Civil rights. African Americans > Politics and government. United States > Race relations.
Physical Description:	xiii, 238 pages : illustrations, portraits, charts ; 21 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

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. Rodríguez
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.