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The preacher and the politician : Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and race in America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Clarence Earl
Other Authors: Smithers, Gregory D., 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Obama, Barack.
Wright, Jeremiah A., > Jr.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects.
United States > Race relations > Religious aspects.
Post-racialism > United States.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
African American clergy > Biography.
African American churches.
Protestantism > Political aspects > United States.
Chicago (Ill.) > Politics and government > 1951-
Table of Contents:
  • The "chickens are coming home to roost" : Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and the Black church
  • "I don't want people to pretend I'm not Black" : Barack Obama and America's racial history
  • "To choose our better history"?
  • Text of Barack Obama's March 18, 2008, speech on race.