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The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America
Walker, Clarence E.; Smithers, Gregory D.
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hardcover. Barack Obama's inauguration as the first African American president of the US has caused many commentators to conclude that America has entered a postracial age. This title argues otherwise, reminding us that, far from inevitable, Obama's nomination was nearly derailed by his relationship with Jeremiah Wright. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JFSL3; JPHF; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
Barack Obama's inauguration as the first African American president of the United States has caused many commentators to conclude that America has entered a postracial age. ""The Preacher and the Politician"" argues otherwise, reminding us that, far from inevitable, Obama's nomination was nearly derailed by his relationship with Jeremiah Wright, the outspoken former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of Chicago. The media storm surrounding Wright's sermons, the historians Clarence E. Walker and Gregory D. Smithers suggest, reveals that America's fraught racial past is very much with us, only slightly less obviously so. With meticulous ... Read more
Barack Obama's inauguration as the first African American president of the United States has caused many commentators to conclude that America has entered a postracial age. ""The Preacher and the Politician"" argues otherwise, reminding us that, far from inevitable, Obama's nomination was nearly derailed by his relationship with Jeremiah Wright, the outspoken former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of Chicago. The media storm surrounding Wright's sermons, the historians Clarence E. Walker and Gregory D. Smithers suggest, reveals that America's fraught racial past is very much with us, only slightly less obviously so. With meticulous ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813928869
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V9780813928869
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About Walker, Clarence E.; Smithers, Gregory D.
Clarence E. Walker, Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, is the author of Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings (Virginia) and We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument about Afrocentrism. Gregory D. Smithers, author of Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s, is Lecturer in American History at ... Read more
Reviews for The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America
The Preacher and the Politician is a timely and provocative book. Clearly written in accessible language, it offers general readers and specialists alike a means to understand the context of the 2008 election and the pervasive complexities of America's legacy of race and racism. - Wallace Best, Princeton University, author of Passionately Human, No Less Divine