Speech Race and Barack Obama's a More Perfect Union

Name: Speech Race and Barack Obama's a More Perfect Union
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ISBN: 9781596916678

ISBN-10: 1596916672

ISBN-13: 9781596916678

Edition: 2009

Authors: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

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After Senator Barack Obama delivered his celebrated speech, "A More Perfect Union," on March 18, 2008,NewYorkTimescolumnist Maureen Dowd noted that only Barack Obama "could alchemize a nuanced 40-minute speech on race into must-see YouTube viewing for 20-year-olds." Pundits established the speech's historical eminence with comparisons to Abraham Lincoln's "A House Divided" and Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream." The future president had addressed one of the biggest issues facing his campaignand our countrywith an eloquence and honesty rarely before heard on a national stage.The Speechbrings together a distinguished lineup of writers and thinkersamong them Adam Mansbach, Alice Randall,…

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 8/18/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Chloroform Morning Joe!


Introduction



Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union"


Wright Stuff, Wrong Time, Part I



Obama and the Generational Challenge



Living the Dream



Black Like Barack



The Audacity of Post-Racism



Between Expediency and Conviction: What We Mean When We Say "Post-Racial"



His Grandmother, My Father, Your Uncle



Nuanced Genius, Part II



L'Effet Obama: Diversity and "A More Perfect Republic"



Why Obama's Race Speech Is a Model for the Political Framing of Race and Poverty



A Belief in the Unseen: A Nation Still at Risk



A More Perfect (High-Tech) Lynching: Obama, the Press, and Jeremiah Wright



"It's Been a Long Time Comin, but Our Change Done Come"



Barack in the Dirty, Dirty South



Mutt on CP Time, Discipline of Malcolm, Part III



The Speech


A More Perfect Union



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