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Optimism at all costs : Black attitudes, activism, and advancement in Obama's America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Branch, Lessie B. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Obama, Barack > Influence.
African Americans > Attitudes.
African Americans > Economic conditions > 21st century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century.
United States > Race relations > History > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the paradoxical ebullience problem
  • Post-racial theories of racial inequality
  • Critical discourse analysis and narratives of race
  • Ebullience and action in Black discourse
  • Social lnowledge and Black "progress"
  • Black America at the end of the Obama era
  • Epilogue : the role of elite discourse in the Trump era and beyond.