Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race Hardcover - 2010
by Thomas J. Sugrue
Barack Obama, in his campaign speech discussing race in America today, quoted William Faulkner: "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." Now an award-winning historian examines the paradox of race in America and how the president intends to deal with it.
From the rear cover
"In Not Even Past, one of America's most prominent historians of race and rights turns a shrewd and honest eye to the contemporary scene. It should be essential reading for anyone trying to understand the changes in racial experience and argument in America since the 1960s, and Barack Obama's place in them."--Daniel T. Rodgers, author of Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age
"In this brilliant work of contemporary history, Thomas Sugrue vividly reconstructs the America in which Barack Obama came of age, and expertly probes the varied political and intellectual influences that have shaped our president's thinking about race and civil rights. No one has written about the complexities of racial politics or Obama's racial compromises with more skill, insight, or erudition. A powerful and sobering book."--Gary Gerstle, author of American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
"Thomas Sugrue's elegant book offers a compelling look at the state of American race relations at the moment of Obama's ascendancy. Embedding this political moment in the context of the complex portrait of civil rights developed in his previous work, Sugrue enables us to see both the power and also the limits of charismatic leadership in driving social change."--Mary L. Dudziak, author of Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
"Not Even Past is a thoughtful reflection on Barack Obama's rise to the presidency and what it tells us--and doesn't tell us--about the meaning and significance of race in the twenty-first-century United States. Admirably concise and elegantly written, this book lays bare the mystique of the 'postracial' presidency without resorting to the kinds of unanchored generalizations and truisms that too often attend conversations about race."--Alice O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Details
- Title Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
- Author Thomas J. Sugrue
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 184
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date 2010-04
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780691137308 / 0691137307
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.8 in (21.84 x 14.48 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Presidents - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010000240
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.932
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 05/15/2010, Page 18
- Foreword, 06/16/2010, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 04/19/2010, Page 47
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