The new Black : what has changed and what has not with race in America

Mack, Kenneth Walter, 1964- (Added Author). Charles, Guy-Uriel E., 1970- (Added Author).

Summary: The election and reelection of Barack Obama ushered in a litany of controversial perspectives about the contemporary state of American race relations. In this incisive volume, some of the country's most celebrated and original thinkers on race?historians, sociologists, writers, scholars, and cultural critics?reexamine the familiar framework of the civil rights movement with an eye to redirecting our understanding of the politics of race. Through provocative and insightful essays, The New Black challenges contemporary images of black families, offers a contentious critique of.

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ISBN: 1595586776
ISBN: 9781595586773
ISBN: 1595587993
ISBN: 9781595587992
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: New York : New Press, The, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface; Introduction; 1 Political Race and the New Black; 2 Déjà Vu All Over Again?; 3 ImmIgratIon and the Civil RIghts Agenda; 4 The PresIdent and the Justice; 5 The Racial MetamorphosIs of JustIce Kennedy and the Future of Civil Rights Law; 6 The RIght Kind of Family; 7 John Hope Franklin; 8 The Puzzles of Racial Extremism in a "Postracial" World; 9 An Officer and a Gentleman; 10 Obama Is No King; 11 Free Black Men; Acknowledgments; ContrIbutors; Notes.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.