The Black presidency : Barack Obama and the politics of race in America
by Dyson, Michael Eric (Author)
Summary
Michael Eric Dyson delivers a provocative exploration of the politics of race and the Obama presidency. Barack Obama's presidency unfolded against the national traumas of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Walter Scott. The nation's first African American president was careful to give... Full description
- The burden of representation
- How to be a Black president : "I can't sound like Martin"
- "Invisible man got the whole world watching" : race, bi-race, post-race in the Obama presidency
- Black presidency, Black rhetoric : Pharaoh and Moses speak
- Re-founding father : patriotism, citizenship, and Obama's America
- The scold of Black folk : the bully pulpit and Black responsibility
- Dying to speak of race : policing Black America
- Going Bulworth : Black truth and white terror in the age of Obama
- Amazing grace : Obama's African American theology
- President Obama's speeches and statements on race.