{"id":44877,"date":"2016-01-08T03:17:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T03:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44877"},"modified":"2017-03-01T21:24:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:24:37","slug":"racial-realities-and-post-racial-dreams-the-age-of-obama-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44877","title":{"rendered":"Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams: The Age of Obama and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadviewpress.com\/product.php?productid=2401\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams: The Age of Obama and Beyond<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadviewpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Broadview Press<\/a><br \/>\n2016-01-05<br \/>\n190 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781554813162<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliusbailey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Julius Bailey<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Philosophy<br \/>\n<em>Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadviewpress.com\/product.php?productid=2401\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/broadviewpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/9781554813162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams<\/em> is a moral call, a harkening and quickening of the spirit, a demand for recognition for those whose voices are whispered. Julius Bailey straddles the fence of social-science research and philosophy, using empirical data and current affairs to direct his empathy-laced discourse. He turns his eye to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> and his critics, racism, income inequality, poverty, and xenophobia, guided by a prophetic thread that calls like-minded visionaries and progressives to action. The book is an honest look at the current state of our professed city on a hill and the destruction left on the darker sides of town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foreword by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Pfleger\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. Dr. Michael L. Pfleger<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Acknowledgments<\/li>\n<li>Introduction: <em>\u201cI, Too, Sing America\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/LnYItn\" target=\"_blank\">Chapter 1: <em>\u201cI Can\u2019t Breathe!\u201d \u201cSo What! F??? Your Breath\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2: <em>Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3: <em>Racism: The Long March to Freedom and the New Jim Crow<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 4: <em>Xenophobia: America Inside Out<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5: <em>Poverty: A Load Too Heavy to Bear<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 6: <em>Income Inequality: The Unbridgeable Gap<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 7: <em>Repositioning the Moral Arc<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Works Cited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams&#8221; is a moral call, a harkening and quickening of the spirit, a demand for recognition for those whose voices are whispered. Julius Bailey straddles the fence of social-science research and philosophy, using empirical data and current affairs to direct his empathy-laced discourse. He turns his eye to President Obama and his critics, racism, income inequality, poverty, and xenophobia, guided by a prophetic thread that calls like-minded visionaries and progressives to action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,11,14647,8,17,6941,26,394,20],"tags":[849,22484,22483],"class_list":["post-44877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-books","category-economics","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-broadview-press","tag-julius-bailey","tag-julius-d-bailey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877","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=44877"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51973,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877\/revisions\/51973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}