Between Barack and a Hard Place Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

Name: Between Barack and a Hard Place Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama
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ISBN: 9780872865006

ISBN-10: 0872865002

ISBN-13: 9780872865006

Edition: 2009

Authors: Tim Wise, Tim J. Wise

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Race is, and always has been, an explosive issue in the United States. In this timely new book, Tim Wise explores how Barack Obamas emergence as a political force is taking the race debate to new levels. According to Wise, for many white people, Obamas rise signifies the end of racism as a pervasive social force; they point to Obama not only as a validation of the American ideology that anyone can make it if they work hard, but also as an example of how institutional barriers against people of color have all but vanished. But is this true? And does a reinforced white belief in color-blind meritocracy potentially make it harder to address ongoing institutional racism? After all, in housing,…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publication date: 2/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.10" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English

J.I. Little is a professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University, author of Loyalties in Conflict: A Canadian Borderland in War and Rebellion, 1812-1840 , and co-author of An Illustrated History of Quebec: Tradition and Modernity .