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.
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