What Obama means : --for our culture, our politics, our future / Jabari Asim.
2009
E907 .A85 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
What Obama means : --for our culture, our politics, our future / Jabari Asim.
Author
Asim, Jabari, 1962-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780061711336
0061711330
0061711330
Imprint
New York : William Morrow, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xii, 223 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
E907 .A85 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.932
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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Table of 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.
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.