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  • Race and the Obama Administration

    Substance, symbols, and hope

    par Andra Gillespie ...
    The election of Barack Obama marked a critical point in American political and social history. Did the historic election of a black president actually change the status of blacks in the United States? Did these changes (or lack thereof) inform blacks' perceptions of the President? This book explores these questions by comparing Obama's promotion of substantive and symbolic initiatives for blacks ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Whose Black Politics?

    Cases in Post-Racial Black Leadership

    Modifié par Andra Gillespie ...
    The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new vanguard in African American political leaders. They came of age after Jim Crow segregation and the Civil Rights Movement, they were raised in integrated neighborhoods and educated in majority white institutions, and they are more likely to embrace deracialized campaign and governance strategies. Members of this new cohort, such as Cory Booker, ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • The New Black Politician

    Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America

    par Andra Gillespie ...
    Explores young black politicians' pursuit of diverse constituenciesAt the beginning of the 21st-century, a vanguard of young, affluent black leadership has emerged, often clashing with older generations of black leadership for power. The 2002 Newark mayoral race, which featured a contentious battle between the young black challenger Cory Booker and the more established black incumbent Sharpe James ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • The Bridge

    The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

    par David Remnick ...
    National BestsellerIn this nuanced and complex portrait of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick offers a thorough, intricate, and riveting account of the unique experiences that shaped our nation’s first African American president.Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, Remnick explores the elite ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Barack Obama : A Pocket Biography Of Our 44th President

    par Steven J Niven ...
    Affordable, readable, and indispensable, this pocket biography of Barack Obama allows you to put the story of our 44th President right in your back pocket. Written in a clear and concise style, this biography is accessible for anyone interested in a brief yet thorough introduction to Barack Obama. Steven J. Niven of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University chronicles President Obamas ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • Rising Star

    The Making of Barack Obama

    par David Garrow ...
    New York Times BestsellerRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the CrossBarack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as A ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Why the Right Went Wrong

    Conservatism--From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond

    par E.J. Dionne Jr. ...
    From the author of Why Americans Hate Politics, the New York Times bestselling and “notably fair-minded” (The New York Times Book Review), story of the GOP’s fracturing—from the 1964 Goldwater takeover to the Trump spectacle.Why the Right Went Wrong offers an “up to the moment” (The Christian Science Monitor) historical view of the right since the 1960s. Its core contention is that American ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Please Stop Helping Us

    How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

    par Jason L. Riley ...
    Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • A More Beautiful and Terrible History

    The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

    This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. (O Magazine).The civil rights ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    Collections series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD

  • Power in Words

    The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House

    Whatever his ratings, Obama remains personally popular, widely acknowledged for his soaring oratory. His words were one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and are proving to be among his most effective governing weapons.In Power in Words, distinguished historian and civil rights activist Mary Frances Berry and former presidential speechwriter Josh Gottheimer introduce Obama’s ... En savoir plus

    $22.39 CAD

  • History Teaches Us to Resist

    How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times

    Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times.Despair and mourning after the election of an antagonistic or polarizing president, such as Donald Trump, is part of the push-pull of American politics. But in this incisive book, historian Mary Frances Berry shows that resistance to presidential administrations has led to positive change ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD