A Day Late and a Dollar Short
High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's "Post–Racial" America
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Product details:
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons
- Date of Publication 29 December 2009
- ISBN 9780470520666
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 245x167x24 mm
- Weight 516 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Could this be the final victory for civil rights, or the first of many to come? When Henry Louis Gates spoke out about his ridiculous arrest, he stated a truth few Americans?including President Obama?are eager to discuss: there is no such thing as a post–racial America.
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Could this be the final victory for civil rights, or the first of many to come? When Henry Louis Gates spoke out about his ridiculous arrest, he stated a truth few Americans?including President Obama?are eager to discuss: there is no such thing as a post–racial America. When it comes to race, the United States has come a long way, but not far enough and not fast enough. Every day, we cope with casual racism, myriad indignities, institutional obstacles, post–racial nonsense, and peers bent on self–destruction. The powers that be, meanwhile, always seem to arrive with their apologies and redress a day late and a dollar short. This book takes a close look at the lives of African–Americans from diverse backgrounds as Obama’s victory comes to play a personal role in each of their lives. Every tale delves into the complex issues we will have to deal with going forward: The many challenges young black men face, such as subtle persistent racism The stagnation of blacks vis a vis whites Widespread black participation in the military despite widespread anti–war sentiments The decline of unions even as organized labor becomes the primary vehicle for black progress The challenges of interracial families The lack of good schools or healthcare for the poor The inability of well–off blacks to lift up others Barack Obama will deliver his first official State of the Union address in January 2010, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short will deliver an altogether different picture of the way things really under the first black president.
What does Barack Obama mean to Black America? Everything and nothing all at once. America celebrated Barack Obama's election as the realization of a dream few believed they'd see in this lifetime. It has also generated a tremendous surge of white rage and fear masquerading as populist resentment. Move a step forward, get pushed a step back. Before President Obama took office, some suggested that everything would change. America would suddenly become "postracial." Blacks would never again have the rules rewritten and changed to their detriment. Not with Obama in charge. A year in, the reality is much more complicated. Veteran reporters Robert Pierre and Jon Jeter set out across black America to record the stories of South and North, rich and poor, young and old, and radical and reserved. They found many a common thread?pride, adversity, community, disillusionment, and vision?in stories too often ignored by a national media that sought to put race in the rearview mirror as soon as inauguration parties ended. As 2010 gives America its first official State of the Union delivered by an African–American president, this book gives America its first unofficial portrait of the State of the Black Union. Filled with inspiring and heartbreaking true stories of struggle, triumph, and defeat, A Day Late and a Dollar Short may be the most important book you, or the president, will read this year.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1 Daisy Mae on the Bayou: The Past Is Still with Us. 2. Made in America: Union Organizing in Chicago. 3. He Doesn't See What We See: Diop's Protest in St. Petersburg. 4. Where the Grass is Greener: Linda in the Promised Land. 5. Casualty of War: Tee Green in Baghdad. 6. White Is Not an Abstract Concept: Angela's Daughters in Appalachia. 7. Little Men: Jewel and Launnie in New Orleans. 8. Dandelions: Eddie's Freedom in D.C. 9. Watermelon Man: Cecil, Jon, and Ryan In Indianapolis. 10. The Front Man: Lee Moves from South Africa to Brooklyn. Notes. Index.
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