{"id":45273,"date":"2016-02-21T02:16:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T02:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45273"},"modified":"2017-01-16T20:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T20:30:46","slug":"the-black-presidency-barack-obama-and-the-politics-of-race-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45273","title":{"rendered":"The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt<\/a>
\n2016-02-02
\n368 pages
\n6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780544387669
\neBook ISBN: 9780544386426
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780544811805<\/p>\n

Michael Eric Dyson<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Sociology
\nGeorgetown University, Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has President Obama dealt publicly with race\u2014as the national traumas of Tamir Rice<\/a>, Trayvon Martin<\/a>, Michael Brown<\/a>, Eric Garner<\/a>, Freddie Gray<\/a>, and Walter Scott<\/a> 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?<\/p>\n

Dyson explores whether Obama\u2019s use of his own biracialism as a radiant symbol has been driven by the president\u2019s 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>\n

President Obama\u2019s own voice\u2014from an Oval Office<\/a> interview granted to Dyson for this book\u2014along with those of Eric Holder<\/a>, Al Sharpton<\/a>, Jesse Jackson<\/a>, Andrew Young<\/a>, and Maxine Waters<\/a>, among others, add unique depth to this profound tour of the nation\u2019s first black presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016-02-02 368 pages 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780544387669 eBook ISBN: 9780544386426 Paperback ISBN: 9780544811805 Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,11,8,17,26,20],"tags":[1135,11229],"class_list":["post-45273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-usa","tag-houghton-mifflin-harcourt","tag-michael-eric-dyson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45273","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=45273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45275,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45273\/revisions\/45275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}