03276cam a2200325 4500 566326718 TxAuBib 20220628120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544386426 0544386426 B011H55P1K Amazon 154418c6-ee8c-40b4-b224-7f4244611ad2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2287389 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Dyson, Michael Eric. The Black Presidency [Libby eBook] : Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2645kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2499kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>A provocative and lively examination of the meaning of America's first black presidency, by the <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of <i>Tears We Cannot Stop</i>.</b><br /> Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama's identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has President Obama dealt publicly with race—as the national traumas of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and Walter Scott have played out during his tenure? What can we learn from Obama's major race speeches about his approach to racial conflict and the black criticism it provokes? Dyson explores whether Obama's use of his own biracialism as a radiant symbol has been driven by the president's desire to avoid a painful moral reckoning on race. And he sheds light on identity issues within the black power structure, telling the fascinating story of how Obama has spurned traditional black power brokers, significantly reducing their leverage.</p> <p>President Obama's own voice—from an Oval Office interview granted to Dyson for this book—along with those of Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and Maxine Waters, among others, add unique depth to this profound tour of the nation's first black presidency.<br /> <b><br /> "Dyson proves...that he is without peer when it comes to contextualizing race in twenty-first-century America... A must-read for anyone who wants to better understand America's racial past, present, and future."—Gilbert King, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning <i>Devil in the Grove</i></b></p><b>"No one understands the American dilemma of race—and Barack Obama's confounding and yet wondrous grappling with it—better than [Dyson.]"—Douglas Blackmon, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning <i>Slavery by Another Name</i></b>. Nonfiction. Sociology. Politics. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-28 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=154418c6-ee8c-40b4-b224-7f4244611ad2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=154418c6-ee8c-40b4-b224-7f4244611ad2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=154418c6-ee8c-40b4-b224-7f4244611ad2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)