John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the politics of ethnic incorporation and avoidance / Robert C. Smith.
Uniform Title: | SUNY series in African American studies.
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Language: | English |
Published: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2013], ©2013.
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Series: | SUNY series in African American studies.
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Physical Description: | xii, 254 pages ; 24 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Understanding ethnicity and ethnic incorporation in the United States
- The subordination of Irish Catholics and African Americans
- Identity, solidarity and culture : Irish Catholics and African Americans
- Boston and Chicago and the rise of Kennedy and Obama
- Ethnic men : the Al Smith and Jesse Jackson campaigns
- The incorporation of the Catholic Irish, and the semi-incorporation of African Americans
- Kennedy and Obama : charisma, character and ethnic identity
- Religion and the election of 1960
- Race and the election of 2008
- The politics of ethnic avoidance in the Kennedy and Obama administrations.