Not Even Past : : Barack Obama and the Burden of Race / / Thomas J. Sugrue.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Sugrue, Thomas J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: The Lawrence Stone Lectures ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; I. "This Is My Story": Obama, Civil Rights, and Memory --; II. Obama and the Truly Disadvantaged: The Politics of Race and Class --; III. "A More Perfect Union"? The Burden of Race in Obama's America --; Acknowledgments --; Notes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400834198; 9783110442502
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400834198
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas J. Sugrue.

Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, "ed William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it. Obama's journey to the White House undoubtedly marks a watershed in the history of race in America. Yet even in what is being hailed as the post-civil rights era, racial divisions--particularly between blacks and whites--remain deeply entrenched in American life. Sugrue traces Obama's evolving understanding of race and racial inequality throughout his career, from his early days as a community organizer in Chicago, to his time as an attorney and scholar, to his spectacular rise to power as a charismatic and savvy politician, to his dramatic presidential campaign. Sugrue looks at Obama's place in the contested history of the civil rights struggle; his views about the root causes of black poverty in America; and the incredible challenges confronting his historic presidency. Does Obama's presidency signal the end of race in American life? In Not Even Past, a leading historian of civil rights, race, and urban America offers a revealing and unflinchingly honest assessment of the culture and politics of race in the age of Obama, and of our prospects for a postracial America.