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Game Change: Obama And The Clintons, Mccain And Palin, And The Race Of A Lifetim

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his fatherâ��a figure he knows more as a myth than as a manâ��has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odysseyâ��first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his motherâ��s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his fatherâ��s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).

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Wyclef Jean: What did you think of Obama’s speech on race?

admin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:00:47 +0000

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A generation of Joshuas.

AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama

admin — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:13:43 +0000

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AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer (now President) Richard Trumka blasts racism and underlines why workers should vote Obama in 2008. Excerpt of speech given at Steelworkers convention July 1, 2008, sponsored by USW President Leo Gerard. FABULOUS! Entire speech at www.usw.org Mr. Trumka formerly served as president of the United Mine Workers of America. UPDATE: On February 6, 2009 Mr. Trumka was appointed to The White House Economic Recovery Advisory Board, to be chaired by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker. UPDATE: On September 16, 2009 Mr. Trumka was elected to be the President of the AFL-CIO, the national labor federation. He made history when two women joined his team: Liz Shuler, former executive assistant to the Electrical Workers (IBEW) President, was elected as the Secretary-Treasurer, and AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker, was elected to continue on that position. IF THIS VIDEO WON'T LOAD CLICK: www.youtube.com

Barack Obama: ‘A More Perfect Union’ (Full Speech)

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March 18, 2008 Philadelphia, PA

Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (Lawrence Stone Lectures)

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Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it. Obama's journey to the White House undoubtedly marks a watershed in the history of race in America. Yet even in what is being hailed as the post-civil rights era, racial divisions--particularly between blacks and whites--remain deeply entrenched in American life. Sugrue traces Obama's evolving understanding of race and racial inequality throughout his career, from his early days as a community organizer in Chicago, to his time as an attorney and scholar, to his spectacular rise to power as a charismatic and savvy politician, to his dramatic presidential campaign. Sugrue looks at Obama's place in the contested history of the civil rights struggle; his views about the root causes of black poverty in America; and the incredible challenges confronting his historic presidency. Does Obama's presidency signal the end of race in American life? In Not Even Past, a leading historian of civil rights, race, and urban America offers a revealing and unflinchingly honest assessment of the culture and politics of race in the age of Obama, and of our prospects for a postracial America.

The Speech: Race and Barack Obama’s A More Perfect Union

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:34:12 +0000

After Senator Barack Obama delivered his celebrated speech, Â�A More Perfect Union,â�� on March 18, 2008, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd noted that only Barack Obama Â�could alchemize a nuanced 40-minute speech on race into must-see YouTube viewing for 20-year-olds.â�� Pundits established the speechâ��s historical eminence with comparisons to Abraham Lincolnâ��s Â�A House Dividedâ�� and Martin Luther King Jrâ��s Â�I Have a Dream.â�� The future president had addressed one of the biggest issues facing his campaignÂ�and our countryÂ�with an eloquence and honesty rarely before heard on a national stage. The Speech brings together a distinguished lineup of writers and thinkersÂ�among them Adam Mansbach, Alice Randall, Connie Schultz, and William Julius Wilson Â�in a multifaceted exploration of Obamaâ��s address. Their original essays examine every aspect of the speechÂ�literary, political, social, and culturalÂ�and are punctuated by Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jacksonâ��s reportage on the issue of race in the now historic 2008 campaign. Â The Speech memorializes and gives full due to a speech that propelled Obama toward the White House, and prompted a nation to evaluate our imperfect but hopeful union. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is the director of Vanderbilt University's Program in African American and Diaspora Studies and the W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies. She is the author of four books, including the award-winning Pimps Up, Ho's Down, and the editor or coeditor of five others, most recently The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. After Senator Barack Obama delivered his celebrated speech, Â�A More Perfect Union,â�� on March 18, 2008, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd noted that only Barack Obama Â�could alchemize a nuanced 40-minute speech on race into must-see YouTube viewing for 20-year-olds.â�� Pundits established the speechâ��s historical eminence with comparisons to Abraham Lincolnâ��s Â�A House Dividedâ�� and Martin Luther King Jrâ��s Â�I Have a Dream.â�� The future president had addressed one of the biggest issues facing his campaignÂ�and our countryÂ�with an eloquence and honesty rarely before heard on a national stage. The Speech brings together a distinguished lineup of writers and thinkersÂ�among them Adam Mansbach, Alice Randall, Connie Schultz, and William Julius WilsonÂ�in a multifaceted exploration of Obamaâ��s address. Their original essays examine every aspect of the speechÂ�literary, political, social, and culturalÂ�and are punctuated by Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jacksonâ��s reportage on the issue of race in the now historic 2008 campaign.Â The Speech memorializes and gives full due to a speech that propelled Obama toward the White House, and prompted a nation to evaluate our imperfect but hopeful union. "[The Speech] offers answers that are a lot more complex than the unvarnished praise Obama's oration has gotten so far . . . [The Speech is]Â a rich landscape of opinion on the state of race and Obama's singular relationship to it. Last year, we simply couldn't see these arguments in the heat of the campaign; now they're coming into focus."Â�Los Angeles Times "[The Speech] offers answers that are a lot more complex than the unvarnished praise Obama's oration has gotten so far . . . [The Speech is]Â a rich landscape of opinion on the state of race and Obama's singular relationship to it. Last year, we simply couldn't see these arguments in the heat of the campaign; now they're coming into focus."Â�Los Angeles Times"The time is right for [this] reconsideration . . .Â If we are to take the idea of a national racial discussion seriously, then it's especially urgent for a general readership to encounter eye-opening arguments like theologian Obery M. Hendricks Jr.'s articulate defense of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright . . .Â The book's tour de force is language scholar Geneva Smitherman's brilliant close reading of Obama's rhetoric, cadence and tone with reference to the 'Black jeremiad tradition.' She establishes the speech as a unique expression of Obama's biracial, bicultural identity, grounded in Aristotelian rhetoric and touching deep cultural nerves with both white and black audiences."Â�Salon (Critic's Pick)"A team of scholars and journalists explore the implications of Barack Obama's speech 'A More Perfect Union,' given in the heat of the 2008 primary campaign, in this volume edited by Sharpley-Whiting. Written by Obama in response to the media frenzy over statements by his pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, 'A More Perfect Union' addressed the enduring legacy of slavery and racism and instantly entered the canon of great American oratory. The contributors use the speech as a starting point to examine the divide between civil rights-era activism (and activists) and the politics of a younger generation that has grown up in its shadow, as well as the development of black oratory, the meaning of a 'postracial' society, the immigrant experience and divisions between the descendants of American slaves and postcolonial immigrants from the Caribbean, Africa and Latin America. Scholarly without being dry, the book offers a way forward from what has become a stalemate between a 'color-blind' white America that sees racism as a problem solved in the 1960s and a nation of ethnic minorities that experiences daily its structural inequities."Â�Publishers Weekly

Dreams From My Father – A Story Of Race And Inheritance, Revised Edition

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:50:26 +0000

Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama's struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother-a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego. Obama opens his story in New York, where he hears that his father-a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man-has died in a car accident. The news triggers a chain of memories as Barack retraces his family's unusual history: the migration of his mother's family from small-town Kansas to the Hawaiian islands; the love that develops between his mother and a promising young Kenyan student, a love nurtured by youthful innocence and the integrationist spirit of the early sixties; his father's departure from Hawaii when Barack was two, as the realities of race and power reassert themselves; and Barack's own awakening to the fears and doubts that exist not just between the larger black and white worlds but within himself.