Optimism at all costs : Black attitudes, activism, and advancement in Obama's America / Lessie B. Branch.
2018
E185.615 .B66 2018
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Optimism at all costs : Black attitudes, activism, and advancement in Obama's America / Lessie B. Branch.
Author
Branch, Lessie B., author.
ISBN
9781613765661 (electronic book)
1613765665 (electronic book)
9781625343260
1625343264
9781625343277
1625343272
1613765665 (electronic book)
9781625343260
1625343264
9781625343277
1625343272
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 141 pages.)
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E185.615 .B66 2018
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305.896/0730905
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : the paradoxical ebullience problem
Post-racial theories of racial inequality
Critical discourse analysis and narratives of race
Ebullience and action in Black discourse
Social knowledge and Black "progress"
Black America at the end of the Obama era
Epilogue : the role of elite discourse in the Trump era and beyond.
Post-racial theories of racial inequality
Critical discourse analysis and narratives of race
Ebullience and action in Black discourse
Social knowledge and Black "progress"
Black America at the end of the Obama era
Epilogue : the role of elite discourse in the Trump era and beyond.