The Resource A bound man : why we are excited about Obama and why he can't win, Shelby Steele
A bound man : why we are excited about Obama and why he can't win, Shelby Steele
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- Summary
- Award-winning author Steele attests that Senator Barack Obama's groundbreaking quest for the highest office in the land is fast becoming a galvanizing occasion beyond mere presidential politics, one that is forcing a national dialogue on the current state of race relations in America. Says Steele, poverty and inequality usually are the focus of such dialogues, but Obama's bid for so high an office pushes the conversation to a more abstract level where race is a politics of guilt and innocence generated by our painful racial history--a kind of morality play between (and within) the races in which innocence is power and guilt is impotence. Steele maintains that Obama is caught between the two classic postures that blacks have always used to make their way in the white American mainstream: bargaining and challenging; and proposes a way for him to break these bonds and find his own voice.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Free Press hardcover edition
- Extent
- x, 143 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Isbn
- 9781416559177
- Label
- A bound man : why we are excited about Obama and why he can't win
- Title
- A bound man
- Title remainder
- why we are excited about Obama and why he can't win
- Statement of responsibility
- Shelby Steele
- Subject
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- Obama, Barack
- Obama, Barack -- Public opinion
- Presidential candidates -- United States
- African Americans -- Public opinion
- Public opinion -- United States
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009
- United States -- Race relations | Political aspects
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Award-winning author Steele attests that Senator Barack Obama's groundbreaking quest for the highest office in the land is fast becoming a galvanizing occasion beyond mere presidential politics, one that is forcing a national dialogue on the current state of race relations in America. Says Steele, poverty and inequality usually are the focus of such dialogues, but Obama's bid for so high an office pushes the conversation to a more abstract level where race is a politics of guilt and innocence generated by our painful racial history--a kind of morality play between (and within) the races in which innocence is power and guilt is impotence. Steele maintains that Obama is caught between the two classic postures that blacks have always used to make their way in the white American mainstream: bargaining and challenging; and proposes a way for him to break these bonds and find his own voice.--From publisher description
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Steele, Shelby
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Obama, Barack
- Obama, Barack
- African Americans
- Presidential candidates
- Presidents
- Public opinion
- United States
- United States
- Label
- A bound man : why we are excited about Obama and why he can't win, Shelby Steele
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 168714128
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Edition
- First Free Press hardcover edition
- Extent
- x, 143 pages
- Isbn
- 9781416559177
- Lccn
- 2007031711
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- A bound man : why we are excited about Obama and why he can't win, Shelby Steele
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 168714128
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Edition
- First Free Press hardcover edition
- Extent
- x, 143 pages
- Isbn
- 9781416559177
- Lccn
- 2007031711
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Obama, Barack
- Obama, Barack -- Public opinion
- Presidential candidates -- United States
- African Americans -- Public opinion
- Public opinion -- United States
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009
- United States -- Race relations | Political aspects
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008
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