{"id":19214,"date":"2011-12-24T18:20:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T18:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19214"},"modified":"2013-07-10T22:10:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T22:10:28","slug":"the-persistence-of-the-color-line-racial-politics-and-the-obama-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19214","title":{"rendered":"The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/91623\/the-persistence-of-the-color-line-by-randall-kennedy\/9780307377890\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/\">Random House, Inc.<\/a><br \/>\n2011-08-16<br \/>\n336 pages<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 978-0-307-37789-0<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-307-45555-0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/faculty\/directory\/index.html?id=36\" target=\"_blank\">Randall Kennedy<\/a><\/strong>, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>Harvard Law School<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/91623\/the-persistence-of-the-color-line-by-randall-kennedy\/9780307377890\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/images\/dyn\/cover\/?source=9780307377890&amp;height=450&amp;.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Timely\u2014as the 2012 presidential election nears\u2014and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial politics and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a> presidency.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRenowned for his cool reason vis-\u00e0-vis the pitfalls and clich\u00e9s of racial discourse, Randall Kennedy\u2014Harvard professor of law and author of the <em>New York Times<\/em> best seller <em>Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word<\/em>\u2014gives us a keen and shrewd analysis of the complex relationship between the first black president and his African-American constituency.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKennedy tackles such hot-button issues as the nature of racial opposition to Obama, whether Obama has a singular responsibility to African Americans, electoral politics and cultural chauvinism, black patriotism, the differences in Obama\u2019s presentation of himself to blacks and to whites, the challenges posed by the dream of a postracial society, and the far-from-simple symbolism of Obama as a leader of the Joshua generation in a country that has elected only three black senators and two black governors in its entire history.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nEschewing the critical excesses of both the left and the right, Kennedy offers a gimlet-eyed view of Obama\u2019s triumphs and travails, his strengths and weaknesses, as they pertain to the troubled history of race in America.<\/p>\n<p>Read an excerpt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/91623\/the-persistence-of-the-color-line-by-randall-kennedy\/9780307377890\/#excerpt\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/91623\/the-persistence-of-the-color-line-by-randall-kennedy\/9780307377890\/#excerpt\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1. The Obama Inaugural<\/li>\n<li>2. Obama Courts Black America<\/li>\n<li>3. Obama and White America: \u201cWhy Can\u2019t They All Be Like Him?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>4. The Race Card in the Campaign of 2008<\/li>\n<li>5. Reverend Wright and My Father: Reflections on Blacks and Patriotism<\/li>\n<li>6. The Racial Politics of the Sotomayor Confi rmation<\/li>\n<li>7. Addressing Race \u201cthe Obama Way\u201d<\/li>\n<li>8. Obama and the Future of American Race Relations<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency Random House, Inc. 2011-08-16 336 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-37789-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-307-45555-0 Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law Harvard Law School Timely\u2014as the 2012 presidential election nears\u2014and controversial, here is the first book by a major African-American public intellectual on racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,11,8,17,26,394,20],"tags":[724,861],"class_list":["post-19214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-randall-kennedy","tag-random-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}