Race against time : the politics of a darkening America /

As the upheaval of 2020 has made clear, America has utterly failed to atone for its original sin of racism. As America turns blacker and browner, the combination of fearful whites, angry and newly empowered blacks and an inexcusable absence of leadership from Washington has created ideal conditions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Boykin, Keith (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bold Type Books, [2021]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Racism > United States > History. African Americans > Politics and government > 21st century. African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century. United States > Race relations > 21st century. United States > Politics and government > 21st century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Our weary year
The hope that the present has brought us. From Trayvon Martin to George Floyd ; Reckoning
The faith that the dark past has taught us. The never-ending civil war ; George Bush's kinder, gentler racism ; Bill Clinton's calculated triangulation ; George W. Bush's "soft bigotry" ; Barack Obama's unreciprocated optimism ; Donald Trump's white nationalism
Let us march on. Till victory is won ; Atonement ; Accountability ; Equality.